Weatherford (Texas) Democrat – “Beer-drinking college students arrested for 'exploring' FAA tower” – December 30^th, 2014:

Four young men who police say broke into a building in Snyder County, Pennsylvania early Sunday morning to share a few beers set off alarms all the way in Georgia. 

That's because the building happened to be a Federal Aviation Administration air traffic navigation tower. 

The unlawful entry through what the four college students, one of whom is a West Point cadet, said was an unlocked door triggered an intruder alarm that shut down a crucial aviation aid that allows pilots to follow an assigned flight path.

Though authorities believe the four weren’t trying to disrupt air traffic, an alert of the disruption was received at the FAA's regional office in Atlanta, which notified Pennsylvania state police. 

When troopers arrived, they found the four men, all of them younger than 21, walking away from the tower carrying open containers of beer. So along with felony causing a catastrophe, burglary, criminal mischief, criminal trespassing, the foursome also faces underage drinking charges. 

Though FAA spokesman Jim Peters confirmed that “The entrants did not damage the building or equipment and did not pose a safety risk to any aircraft," they also may face federal charges. 

The Daily Journal (Park Hills, Missouri) Online - "Burglars question homeowner when caught in act" - December 28th, 2014:

 

Crystal City Police caught a brazen burglar and his sidekick on Dec. 16 after the would-be robber challenged the homeowner as to who really owned the home.

It took place in the 2400 block of Hwy. 61-67 just after noon when the homeowner entered the home and found an apparent burglary in progress.

According to authorities, when the owner entered the residence they were confronted by a male subject who actually asked the homeowner what he was doing in the house. The homeowner told him he was the owner and the subject said they would see about that.

The homeowner ran out and called police and when officers responded they saw two men fleeing on foot. They captured both men after a short foot chase.

The suspects, a 46-year Cedar Hill man and a 53-year-old Arnold man, were arrested on suspicion of first-degree burglary, a Class B felony, and misdemeanor charges of trespassing. They were released pending application of warrants.

Authorities reported that there were no injuries and nothing appeared to have been taken. The men entered the house through an unlocked rear door.

www.thedenverchannel.com – “Brazen burglars are hitting Stapleton homes while people sleep; police urge residents to lock up” – September 26^th, 2014:

DENVER - Denver police are warning residents in the Stapleton neighborhood to lock their doors and windows after a string of brazen burglaries where crooks looted homes while people slept.

The burglaries occurred from Sunday into Friday. Police said the targeted area roughly stretches from East 21st Avenue to East 29th Avenue and Syracuse Street to Xenia Street.

"She was actually sleeping on the couch when the person came in the house," burglary victim Jeremy Willius said of his wife.

What did the Willius' household loose? "Three phones, two purses, two sets of keys and our Honda Odyssey," Willius told 7NEWS reported Molly Hendrickson.

"I wish I had kept my windows closed," he added.

Police are urging residents to lock up.

All have involved the owners being present within the homes while burglaries were occurring," the Denver Police District 5 Facebook page says. "These incidents also involved several unlocked front and sliding glass doors to the residences."

"That's scary because burglars are supposed to come when you're not home," said Mike Bibbo, another Stapleton resident. "I used to walk my dog and not really think about locking my door."

The Washington Post – “Secret Service reviews White House security after fence-jumper enters mansion” – September 20^th, 2014:

A day after a man scaled the fence and managed to get inside the front door of the White House, another man was arrested for trespassing after pulling his car into a White House access gate at 15^th and E streets and refusing to leave, according to a Secret Service official.

The latest incident comes as the Secret Service has launched a White House security review into how a man was able to get inside the north door of the mansion Friday night. Authorities say Omar J. Gonzalez, 42, of Copperas Cove, Tex., hopped over the north fence line near Pennsylvania Avenue about 7:20 p.m. Friday, setting off a standard security alarm indicating a breach of the perimeter. Officers demanded that he stop, but he did not respond, and they were unable to reach him on foot before he ran more than 70 yards and got inside the unlocked front doors of the presidential mansion. A guard stationed at the door subdued him.

Officers at the scene considered Gonzalez to be unarmed and likely mentally disturbed, a law enforcement official familiar with the incident said.

www.nj.com – “High on PCP, Jersey City man locked himself in kindergarten bathroom: court docs” – September 17^th, 2014:

The Jersey City man accused of locking himself in a kindergarten bathroom at a Jersey City elementary school while high on PCP made his first court appearance today.

Lamont Clay, 41, of Ocean Avenue, is charged with criminal trespass and being under the influence after he allegedly walked into a trailer housing a kindergarten class Friday morning at Fred W. Martin School 41 on Wilkinson Avenue.

According to a criminal complaint, Clay did “enter through the fence at Public School #41, walk to the kindergarten trailer located in the parking lot, open the unlocked door, walk into classroom trailer and lock himself in student’s bathroom."

Clay was under the influence of PCP as he locked himself in the bathroom, police said.

Clay appeared in Central Judicial Processing court in Jersey City today, where Judge Margaret Marley set his bail at $5,000 with a 10 percent cash option. As a condition of his bail, he must have no contact with School 41.

"I don't know if the teacher had locked the door or maybe the locks don't work properly," Jersey City school board member Marilyn Roman said Friday afternoon. "We need to make sure the trailers are safe for the students."

 

www.nj.com - “Laptops, watches stolen during Jersey City home burglary, police say” – September 7^th, 2014:

A Jersey City couple woke up Saturday to find about $2,800 worth of electronics and jewelry stolen from their home, according to police.

A woman living on Terrance Avenue told police that she went to sleep around 2 a.m. on Friday night, according to police. But when she awoke at 6 a.m. on Saturday, she noticed that the room where her mother sleeps was ransacked and clothes were tossed on the floor, according to police. 

As the woman proceeded downstairs, she found bags strewn across the living room and a screen window in the kitchen wide open, according to police.

The woman then contacted her 57-year-old husband and the two searched the home, according to police. The couple discovered that two laptops and laptop bags were missing, as well as five gold watches, according to police.

The two estimated the laptops, bags and watches at about $2,800, according to police.

Police found no signs of forced entry and believed the front door was unlocked, according to police. 

 

www.cbc.ca - “Boy, 9, steals Saskatoon city bus, hits 2 parked vehicles” – September 6^th, 2014:

No injuries are reported after a nine-year-old boy stole a city bus in Saskatoon and managed to drive it for a couple of blocks Saturday morning.

Police say the bus was stolen from the bus garages on 300 block of 24th Street West, near downtown.

CBC reporter Steve Pasqualotto was driving south along nearby Idywyld Drive toward downtown when he looked over and saw the child at the wheel of the bus.

The boy eventually stopped at the corner of Idylwyld Drive and 25th Street, after getting the bus hung up on the curb.

Police say the boy hit two vehicles — a parked city bus and another parked car — but no one was hurt.

Since the boy is 9-years-old police cannot lay charges.

Officers have confirmed he was taken home and is now with his family.

According to city officials, the stolen bus was being repaired on Saturday when it was stolen.

Jeff Jorgenson, General Manager of Transportation & Utilities Department, said he and other officials have reviewed a video tape that captured the incident. Based on this footage, Jorgenson explained that the bus had been left running by a maintenance person when the boy entered the bus and stole it.

"This is a case, from what I've seen, [where] policy and procedures were very clearly violated," said Jorgenson. "Buses are not to be left in that condition."

Jorgenson said typically buses must be left in a secured state. He explained that none of the steps had been taken to secure the bus, making it easy for the child to drive away with the bus.

"This is a case where safety protocols were violated," Jorgenson said, as he explained that the door was left unlocked, and the boy entered the bus with ease and started driving the bus a short time after entering it because the bus was not secure.

motoringcrunch.com – “Tesla Model S Hiccup Lets You Unlock Doors Remotely” – September 1^st. 2014:

The Model S from Tesla, the electric car, comes with many vulnerabilities that allow the car door to be unlocked and provides access to various controls of the car, said researchers. The flaw means that someone could activate such as the horn, lights and roof through remote control.

Tesla have been told about the bug and those who found it said that it can only be manipulated via high tech manoeuvres and it can be remedied by simply deactivating the remote access function of the vehicle.

The security company who found the issue have been the first to come across the security issue with Tesla cars. However this isn’t the first time that Tesla have come across issues as in March it was found that electric cars of theirs could be located and unlocked thanks to a six character password that could be used remotely.

www.nj.com - “Kearny man punched 74-year-old Lyndhurst man in robbery attempt, police say” – August 31^st, 2014:

A Kearny man broke into a Bogle Drive home Friday and struck one of its 74-year-old occupants in a robbery attempt, police said.

Police charged Evanalain Sieberkrob-Hershman, 24, with robbery, burglary, three counts of aggravated assault, hindering apprehension, criminal restraint and possession of a hypodermic needle.

A 74-year-old woman told Lyndhurst Police that a man entered her home through an unlocked rear door, Capt. John J. Valente said in a press release. The man grabbed her and demanded money.

The woman's husband, also 74, tried to intervene but the man struck him in the head, Valente said. A 50-year-old relative living upstairs came down after hearing screams for help.

The man pushed her aside as he fled toward Riverside County Park, Valente said.

Police searched the park, where a witness reported seeing someone matching a description provided by police, Valente said. The witness said he saw the man walking north through the park toward Riverside Avenue.

Police arrested Sieberkrob-Hershman in a parking lot on Riverside Avenue. He was trying to remove clothing, apparently to avoid being recognized by police, Valente said.

He was sent to Bergen County Jail in lieu of $420,000 bail.

The 74-year-old man was released from Meadowlands Hospital after treatment for face and head injuries, Valente said.

The Pocono (Pennsylvania) Record - “Pocono Mountain Regional Police Commission investigation kept from public” – August 24^th, 2014:

The Pocono Mountain Regional Police Commission hired an attorney last year to conduct an investigation of then-chief Harry Lewis that eventually cost $56,053, without approving it at a public meeting, records show.

Now, the commission is withholding the report based on a privately executed agreement signed with Lewis and his lawyer.

The department responded to a Right-to-Know request this week for the invoices from Philadelphia attorney, Neil A. Morris, hired to conduct the investigation. Coolbaugh Township commission representative Bill Weimer revealed the investigation for the first time earlier this summer, estimating it cost $50,000, while demanding to see a copy of the resulting report.

Lewis, whose last day was Aug. 8, left his handgun in an unlocked department vehicle at his Allentown-area home the night of May 19-20, 2013. Two teens who were allegedly going through unlocked cars in the area were accused of stealing it before one sold it on the streets of Allentown.

A series of invoices on "Chief Harry Lewis (Lost Weapon Issue)" starting in July 2013 shows Morris began billing for hours July 8 and continued through Dec. 12. In that time, Morris' then firm Archer & Greiner billed 213.7 hours of work. The department spent $27,606 in October alone investigating.

Lewis denied he was disciplined after what he said in early November was an "internal review" that was thorough and concluded.

Police commission representative and Coolbaugh Supervisor Juan Adams has said Lewis was punished, but has not specified how. Officials have not confirming the discipline question, calling it a personnel matter exempt from disclosure.

Minutes reviewed throughout 2013 do not show any motion to approve hiring the attorney. The department last week also denied a Right-to-Know request for a record of the commission's approval because the records do not exist.

"There are no minutes of executive session meetings of Pocono Mountain Regional Police Department," the denial said in explanation.

Police Solicitor Harry Coleman has not responded to several requests for comment, but commission chair Jim Frutchey said he sees no problem with the executive session decision-making.

But the two closed-door decisions to hire an attorney and sign the agreement with Lewis are problematic, said Kim de Bourbon of the Pennsylvania Freedom of Information Coalition.

"Public boards cannot take votes on official action behind closed doors. Period," de Bourbon, a former Pocono Record editor, said by email. "Sometimes courts have allowed so-called 'straw polls' in executive session, as long as official votes are made in public."

De Bourbon said the investigation could be viewed as internal because it was conducted by the commission with outside help, not by state or federal agencies.

Melissa Beven Melewsky, media law counsel at the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association, said both executive session decisions indicate compliance problems with the Sunshine Act.

Without disclosing private personnel issues, the commission should have acted in public, she said.

"They have to give the public enough information to determine whether or not they want to comment," she said.

Lake County (Illinois) News-Sun – “Police: Burglars target garage door openers for home access” – May 29^th, 2014:

Gurnee police have put out a Crime Alert warning residents of a residential burglary trend in which thieves target unlocked cars and grab garage openers to enter the home.

Two recent burglaries on the northeast side of the village have followed that plan, according to Gurnee police. In one case, the car was stolen, too.

"It’s unique,” said Tom Agos, the department’s crime prevention specialist.

The incident in which the car was stolen hasn’t been solved, but police did recover the vehicle in Waukegan.

In each case, a garage door opener was taken from an unlocked car parked outside to gain entry into the garage and then into the home, police said. The doors between the garage and home were left unlocked. Both cases happened overnight while the residents were home asleep.

“It seems elementary, but both crimes could likely have been thwarted had the parked vehicles been locked,” Agos said.

www.yourmoney.com – Blog: Don’t accidentally invalidate your home insurance – by Adam Powell, May 23^rd, 2014:

Few of us think we'll ever fall victim to burglary yet it's an issue that a surprisingly high number of people have faced.

According to recent research, one in 10 of us has had our home burgled. More alarmingly perhaps is that one in three people admit to leaving doors unlocked when they leave the house and six per cent hide spare keys near their front door.

While some may think leaving doors unlocked is a trivial action, by not securing your property efficiently, you'll not only risk burglary, you'll also risk invalidating your home insurance.

If there is no evidence of a forced entry and it appears a burglar strolled in through an unlocked door, your home insurer may refuse to meet your claim. They might say you failed to take appropriate measures to properly secure the property and therefore deem your policy invalid.

Associated Press – "Donor, ex-boyfriend: GOP Senate hopeful stalked me" - May 18th, 2014:

PORTLAND, OREGON (AP) — A millionaire former boyfriend who’s now bankrolling ads against her opponent called the police last year on Monica Wehby, the leading Republican candidate in Oregon’s U.S. Senate race, and accused her of stalking him as their relationship broke up.

Timber company executive Andrew Miller told a Portland police officer on April 4, 2013, that Wehby “had been ‘harassing’ his employees and ‘stalking’ him,” according to a report the officer filed.

Wehby did not address the issue in a debate with Conger in Portland on Friday, and she ignored questions from reporters as she and her staff left out a side door.

Wehby has excited Republicans in Washington, who are impressed by her resume and are hopeful she can raise enough money to make her competitive against Democratic incumbent Jeff Merkley, despite Republicans’ longstanding struggles to win statewide races in Oregon.

Authorities got involved when Miller called police to say Wehby wouldn’t leave his house, according to the report. An officer spotted Wehby’s Mercedes leaving Miller’s neighborhood and pulled her over.

She told the officer she’d been in a relationship with Miller for two years but that something changed over the weekend and he’d stopped talking to her or returning her calls, according to the police report. She said she’d visited his house, and when he didn’t answer, entered through an unlocked back door. The officer told her to go home and not to return to Miller’s home unless she was invited.

Miller said he and Wehby remain friends, but their relationship is over.

 

The Daily Breeze (Torrance, California) – “Burglars creep into two Manhattan Beach homes while residents sleep” – May 5^th, 2014:

Burglars slithered into two Manhattan Beach homes as their residents slept in the middle of the night over the weekend, prompting police on Monday to encourage potential victims to lock their doors and windows at night.

Residents in neither of the homes knew a crime had occurred in the neighboring rooms until they awakened in the morning, Manhattan Beach police Officer Stephanie Martin said.

“The scary part is that you are home asleep and you have no idea somebody is wandering around inside your house,” Martin said. “Unnerving is an understatement when you think of that. And completely terrifying when you wake up and find someone in your home. It’s very scary and very concerning.”

The first crime occurred sometime between 2:45 and 8:45 a.m. Saturday in the 4400 Block of The Strand. Police determined the burglars entered through an unlocked sliding glass door. The residents said the thieves took an iPhone, a wallet and car keys.

The second crime occurred sometime between 5:30 and 10:15 a.m. the same day at a home in the 200 block of Shell Street. Police believe the burglars entered through an unlocked door and took an iPhone, a computer, keys and other personal items.

Police don’t know if the bold burglars targeted the houses or hit them by chance because they were unsecured.

Police throughout the South Bay have cautioned residents for years that they can reduce crime by simply locking their homes and automobiles.

WLS-TV (Chicago, Illinois) – “Burbank woman wakes to intruder tugging at her clothes” – April 27^th, 2014:

April 27, 2014 (BURBANK, Ill.) (WLS) -- Police in southwest suburban Burbank are looking for a man who broke into a woman's home. She woke up when she felt the intruder tugging on her clothes.

The woman screamed early Saturday morning and got the attention of others living with her. The suspect ran out of the home and drove off in a van.

No one was hurt.

Police believe the suspect got in through an unlocked door.

The Bainbridge Island (Washington) Review – “Serial burglar still prowling on island UPDATE” – April 25^th, 2014:

Bainbridge Island police released two sketches of suspects who may have been involved in a string of residential burglaries on the island since early March.

Police Chief Matthew Hamner said Wednesday the illustrations were prepared by a police sketch artist with another agency. The sketches were prepared on April 15 and April 17, after more burglaries were reported on the island, and witnesses to earlier burglaries provided detailed descriptions to police.

In the most recent incident, the man entered a Bainbridge home while one of the residents was still home.

A 22-year-old woman was at home while her parents were away, and heard someone entering the house the afternoon of Wednesday, April 16.

She retreated to a bathroom, locked the door, and called 911.

Roughly two dozen burglaries have been reported on Bainbridge Island since March.

In six of the burglaries, the intruder entered through an unlocked door. The burglar forced his way into homes in some of the other cases.

The majority of the incidents occurred during the week and daytime hours while residents are at work.

The intruder has made off with easy-to-carry items such as jewelry and laptop computers, as well as three firearms.

The theft of the guns adds another dimension to the crimes.

fox5sandiego.com (California) – “Handcuffed inmate escapes from jail” – April 21^st, 2014:

SAN DIEGO – A 21 year old robbery suspect is on the loose after he escaped from the San Diego Central Jail downtown Monday afternoon.

Angelo Paschall was brought to the central jail by two La Mesa police officers Monday and was in the process of being booked when he escaped through an unlocked door. San Diego police, La Mesa police and Sheriff’s deputies used dogs to search for the inmate in the downtown area, specifically targeting a parking structure on 6th and L street, but they could not find him.

Morning Sentinel (Waterville, Maine) – “Charges in Cambridge home invasion upgraded to felony robbery” – April 20^th, 2014:

Two men with bandanas covering their faces allegedly invaded Ripley Road home, assaulted woman and made off with drugs in getaway car driven by woman, according to police.

Charges against two local men and a woman from Howland have been upgraded to felony robbery following a masked home invasion March 23 in Cambridge.

 

The woman, Melinda Riggs, 25, the alleged driver of the getaway car that night, was arrested Friday by Somerset County sheriff’s deputies on charges of robbery, burglary and theft. Riggs first was arrested after the home invasion on a probation hold. She is on probation for possession of scheduled drugs.

Joshua Chase, 28, of Detroit, and Ryan Spaulding, 24, of Waterville, originally were charged with probation violations and with assault following the home invasion. They now are charged with robbery, burglary, assault and theft.

Police said two men, believed to be Chase and Spaulding, covered their faces with bandannas and made their way into a home on Ripley Road through an unlocked door about 1:20 a.m. Once inside the men allegedly assaulted the 34-year-old woman who lives there when she confronted them, and they made off with prescription medication, according to Dale Lancaster, chief deputy for the Somerset County Sheriff’s Department.

The woman reportedly was assaulted a second time outside the home as the men attempted to leave in the getaway car, a 2000 Nissan Maxima, allegedly driven by Riggs, Lancaster said.

The getaway car was stopped 10 minutes later on Corinna Road in Dexter by the Dexter Police Department during a routine drunken driving roadblock.

 

San Bernardino (California) Sun – “Woman tased during home-invasion robbery in San Bernardino” – April 19^th, 2014:

Four males entered an unlocked home in the middle of the night, robbing the residents at gunpoint, according to authorities.

The home invasion occurred sometime between 2and 3 a.m. Friday in the 5900 block of Arden Avenue when four men wearing masks entered a home through an unlocked door, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.

Two residents, a man and a woman, were bound, and the woman was tased while the robbers took numerous items from the home before fleeing in an unknown vehicle, according to the Sheriff’s Department.

losangeles.cbslocal.com – “Thieves Allegedly Make Off With 7,000 Comic Books That Took Man 3 Decades To Collect” – April 18^th, 2014:

An Eagle Rock man is searching for the thieves who allegedly made off with his lifelong collection of comic books.

Adam Rose told CBS2’s Greg Mills that 14 boxes of comic books were taken from his garage sometime last week.

As he explained, the suspected thieves allegedly removed his garage door opener from his unlocked vehicle, and made their way into his garage.

In all, 7,000 comic books were taken – a collection that took Rose three decades to build.

Morning Sentinel (Skowhegan, Maine) – “’Creepy’ burglar charged again in Skowhegan” – April 10^th, 2014:

Police said Douglas A. DeWalt allegedly entered a woman’s home through an unlocked door and stood over her bed, just like he did in previous cases.

SKOWHEGAN — A man once described by a district attorney as “creepy” for twice breaking into homes and standing over women he thought were sleeping was arrested Wednesday in Skowhegan for allegedly doing the same thing.

Douglas A. DeWalt, 46, of Skowhegan, was charged with aggravated criminal trespass for allegedly entering a woman’s home near Jewett and Chandler streets through an unlocked door about 3:20 a.m. and standing over her bed, Police Chief Ted Blais said Thursday. DeWalt, who made his initial court appearance on the charge Wednesday, had only been out of prison five months for convictions on identical charges.

Blais said the 48-year-old woman was awakened by a creak of the door in the darkness of her home early Wednesday morning. She had left the doors unlocked that night, he said.

Blais said the newest charge against DeWalt shows a pattern of behavior that is disturbing, and said it highlights of the importance of homeowners locking their doors at night.

Contra Costa (California) Times – “Concord grandfather found guilty in grandson’s mauling by pit bulls” – April 11^th, 2014:

A judge Friday afternoon found a Concord grandfather guilty of involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment in the fatal 2010 mauling of his toddler grandson by three pit bulls -- dogs a prosecutor said their owner knew to be vicious.

In a rare legal procedure, Contra Costa Superior Court Judge John Kennedy decided 55-year-old Steven Hayashi's verdict, after Hayashi waived his right to a jury trial. Hayashi faces up to 10 years in prison.

On July 22, 2010, Hayashi's 2-year-old step-grandson, Jacob Bisbee, walked into an unlocked garage after leaving him unsupervised with his 4-year-old brother and sleeping wife. The three pit bulls mauled the boy, who bled to death.

At issue was whether Hayashi should have foreseen the attack, with prosecutors saying Hayashi knew the dogs had killed two family pets and showed aggression toward Jacob. Hayashi's defense attorney argued that his client believed Jacob and his brother were left with an awake adult -- Hayashi's wife -- and that the dogs had never attacked a person before, only animals.

In explaining his decision, Kennedy said Hayashi did not check to see whether Jacob's father had left for work or whether the toddler's door was open, didn't confirm whether the children or his wife were awake and didn't lock the garage door before he left to play tennis.

Hayashi was told numerous times by his wife and other relatives to get rid of the dogs because they feared how they would react to the children, Kennedy said.

"But as he told his wife, the dogs were his, and the children were his step-grandchildren, and they should leave before the dogs," prosecutor Mary Knox told the judge in her opening statement.

On the day of the mauling, Hayashi's wife made the grisly discovery about 8:45 a.m. and called 9-1-1. The dispatcher could hear the dogs barking furiously in the background, Kennedy said.

"The likelihood one of the toddlers would get hurt by the dogs was high," Kennedy said.

Knox argued that Hayashi had plenty of advance warning about the danger he was placing the young boys in and said after court that Jacob's death was "a completely avoidable tragedy."

Contra Costa (California) Times – “Berkeley man faces six felony counts in rape trial” – April 8^th, 2014:

MARTINEZ – A prosecutor described the actions of a Berkeley man as “the worst mightmare” and during closing arguments of a rape trial Monday asked a jury to return guilty verdicts on six felony counts.

Depity District Attorney Ryan Wagner argued that Antonio Andre Mouton, 26, was responsible for two of the three sexual assaults that occurred at Walnut Creek’s Park Regency Apartments over a six-week period in the summer of 2010 – a spree that left residents of the complex on edge.

Mouton is charged with three counts of rape by force, two counts of burglary and one with assault with intent to commit rape.

On June 30, 2010, Wagner said, Mouton gained entry into the apartment of one woman after knocking on her door around 1 a.m. and asking for a glass of water. He placed his hand over her mouth, but fled when she fought back.

On July 6, Wagner said, Mouton entered the apartment of a second woman through an unlocked door shortly after her husband left for work. Wagner told the jury that Mouton awoke the sleeping woman and raped her.

“It’s the worst nightmare,” Wagner said. “Asleep in your own apartment, no worries, letting your guard down in a place where you feel safe. Then he burglarizes her apartment and rapes her in the bed she shares with her new husband.”

The Baltimore (Maryland) Sun – Crime Log – April 8^th, 2014:

Covered Wagon Drive, 9700 block, between 7 a.m. and 2 p.m. April 2. Entry gained to residence via unlocked window. Electronics stolen.

Clarksville Pike, 13900 block, between 12 p.m. and 3:55 p.m. April 1. Entry gained to residence via unlocked door. Electronics, several guns stolen.

Fruitgift Place, 6500 block, between 12 p.m. and 12:45 p.m. March 31. Entry gained to residence via unlocked door. Game system and shoes taken.

millbrae.patch.com – “Naked Man on Rampage Enters 2 Palo Alto Homes, Punches Teen, Tackles Woman Walking Dog” – April 6^th, 2014:

Police arrested a naked 18-year-old man suspected of being under the influence of narcotics after he went on a violent crime spree Friday night, fighting two residents in their homes and beating a woman who was walking her dog before finally being taken into custody after struggling with officers, police said.

At 8:51 p.m. Friday, the Palo Alto Police Department’s 24-hour dispatch center received a 911 call from a resident in the 1100 block of Colorado Avenue reporting an in-progress battery.
 
The resident said that a naked man had entered the home through an unlocked front door, charged a teenage juvenile and punched him at least once, and then fled on foot, police said.

As officers responded, officers said a second 911 call came in from a resident on the 1000 block of Colorado Avenue at about 8:52 p.m.

That resident, a man in his 40s, reported that a naked male had just entered his home through an open front door and attempted to physically attack him. The resident kicked the suspect, who fled on foot, police said.

Officers found the naked suspect at 8:57 p.m. in the 2900 block of Otterson Court.

Police said he had a cut on his face and numerous abrasions on his body, and charged at officers when they spotted him.
 
After a brief physical struggle, officers apprehended the suspect, who spat blood on an officer after he was handcuffed, police said.

The suspect exhibited a number of symptoms of being under the influence of narcotics, according to investigators.

Dispatchers answered a third 911 call at 8:57 p.m. from a woman who said she was walking her dog in the 1000 block of Colorado Avenue when she was tackled from behind by a naked man, who punched and kicked her numerous times while she lay on the ground.

Investigators determined that the suspect left the first home along 1100 Colorado and attacked the female dog walker, a woman in her 50s, who screamed for help.

Police booked 18-year-old Daiki Glenn Minaki of Palo Alto into the Santa Clara County Main Jail for suspicion of one count of felony battery for his actions against the woman walking her dog, and six misdemeanor charges (resisting arrest, battery on an officer, under the influence of narcotics, battery, and two counts of trespassing). 

Chico (California) Enterprise-Record – Police Reports – April 2^nd, 2014:

Residential burglaries

April 2: 300 block of West 20^th Street. Entry made through unlocked back door; loss of gas can and Smith & Wesson 10mm semi-automatic pistol. Reported at 4:55 p.m.

www.mlive.com (Michigan) – “Athletic money stolen from Parchment schools kept in unlocked locations, police report says” – April 2^nd, 2014:

KALAMAZOO, MI -- Kalamazoo Township police were unable to solve an embezzlement case at Parchment School District because it involved cash kept in two unlocked locations at Parchment High School and was easily accessible to dozens of people, according to police documents.

In a case first made public last week, school officials told police they estimated more than $20,000 in cash went missing during the 2011-12 school year.

The money was from admission fees collected at sporting events, and was almost half of the revenues expected to be generated during the school year, according to the investigation by the Kalamazoo Township Police Department, which has jurisdiction over Parchment. The investigative report was obtained by the Kalamazoo Gazette under the Freedom of Information Act.

After working on the case for 19 months, Kalamazoo Township police ended their active investigation two months ago without a recommendation for an arrest because of the number of people who had easy access to the cash. 

"There are many possibilities of persons who had access to the athletic money who could be viable suspects," including administrators, secretarial staff, teachers, maintenance workers and students, Detective Georgeann Ergang wrote in the final page of the report.

She wrote the money box was kept in either an unlocked cupboard in the high school office or a supply room that was unlocked during the school day and used by numerous people.

The deposits were sometimes made weeks and even months after money was collected and it was common knowledge where the cash was kept prior to being deposited in the bank, Ergang wrote.

"Without an admission from a possible suspect in this case, this case is closed," she wrote.