This week’s crime roundup from the Ocean Grove Neighborhood Watch includes the following:
- Two unoccupied houses were entered in the 50 block of Heck Avenue. Police said the burglar was arrested.
- Someone entered another unoccupied house — this one in the area of 70 Lake Avenue — by climbing through an open window. Several personal items were taken.
- Personal items were also taken from an unoccupied, unsecured house in the area of 100 Abbott Avenue.
- A bicycle was stolen from the area of 90 Asbury Avenue.
- Two vehicles were vandalized, one in the area of 70 Main Avenue and one in the area of 130 Mt. Hermon Way.
- And finally, police had a report of a lottery scam. The victims said they got a phone call from someone who said he was with Las Vegas Mega Millions. The caller told the victims they had won cash and a car. The victim was advised to send a money order of a few hundred dollars in order to have their winnings processed.
– CL
I had some garden decorations stolen from my front yard on Fletcher Lake Avenue. These were three beautiful globes on two foot stakes that lit-up at night and continuously changed colors. I don’t know when they were taken, but we had them for almost four years. I received many comments from our neighbors and passers-by about how they enjoyed them. Now they are gone!
It’s very disconcerting that Ocean Grove has a chronic problem with vandalism, petty theft not to mention the even more serious crimes such as home break-ins and felony burglary.
I am tempted to put in surveillance cameras to catch perpetrators in the act.
I have 4 cameras and motion detector lights (although the cameras work in the dark just fine). If more people had them, we’d be a better off community. I have never had a problem, ’cause people notice the cameras. It all uploads to the internet and I can watch in real time or history up to four months old from any computer. All and all it’s cool.
I can also see if the garbage was picked up, which helpful citizen turned my sprinkler system off at the external cut off valve the other day (yes I know who you are Mr. Buttinsky and I will be saying something to you), and many other things that go on, including the lady who lets her black dog mess on my lawn).
I’m watching you.