Crime Watch: Rocky Ridge Businesses Burglarized, More

Pizza, Pet Food Stores Burglarized

Adjacent businesses at the corner of Rocky Ridge Drive and Cirby Way, a pizza restaurant and a pet food store, were burglarized at about 10:30 p.m. Feb. 12.  Thanks to an alert neighbor who called police to report suspicious activity, Roseville Police have a description of the suspects' vehicle: An older (early 80s) dark-colored, possibly brown American-made sedan with a partial vinyl top, similar in appearance to a Cadillac El Dorado.  Two males were seen loading property into the vehicles.

Residential Burglaries:

Saturday, Jan. 28

Sometime between Jan. 28 and Feb. 1, someone stole a cooktop from a vacant house on Ardley Drive.

Saturday, Feb. 4

Between 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 4, someone burglarized a house in the 200 block of Alta Vista Ave. It appears the burglar removed a window-mounted air-conditioning unit and entered via the window, taking a TV, laptop computers and other items.

Monday, Feb. 6

Attempted burglary: At 3 a.m. on Feb. 6, a resident of the 1600 block of Gardenia Way was awakened by a scraping sound.  The next day, she discovered that her garage door had been pried and was slightly open. Nothing was taken.

Between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Feb. 6, someone went into the backyard of a house in the 1600 block of Sierra Gardens Drive, and then entered the house through a bathroom window. The burglar took a flat-screen TV, video game console and other valuables.

Between noon on Feb. 6 and 6:30 a.m. on Feb. 7, someone entered a garage in the 500 block of Gibson Drive and took 2 bicycles and a cordless drill. There was no sign of forced entry, and we don't know how the burglar got in.

Between 12:30 p.m. and 2 p.m. on Feb. 6, someone entered an open garage on Stavros Court and took a bicycle. The resident had been working in his garage, but then went inside the house, leaving the garage door open.

Thursday, Feb. 9

Between 10 p.m. Feb. 9 and 9:30 a.m. Feb. 11, someone went into a house on Chandon Court and took antique silver items.  The unknown suspect may have entered through a back sliding door.

Friday, Feb. 10

Between 10 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. on Feb. 10, someone entered a home on Grasmere Circle through a rear sliding door and stole video game consoles, jewelry and small electronic items.  It's unknown at this time whether this burglary is connected to the two suspects who were arrested for burglaries in the same area on Feb. 13.

Monday, Feb. 13

At 5:12 a.m. Feb. 13, an alert resident reported suspicious activity at a neighbor's house on Milstead Way. An SUV was parked on the curb in front of the neighbor's house, facing the wrong direction, and a person wearing a black sweatshirt with the hood up walked up to the residence.  Roseville Police, Rocklin Police and Placer County Sheriff's units responded and soon .

On Feb. 13, officers responded to an .  A resident encountered a burglar in her living room, holding her jewelry box.  She tried unsuccessfully to grab her jewelry box back, and the suspect fled out the back door. With the help of the Rocklin Police Department, officers developed a lead which led to the search of a residence in Rocklin.  Officers located stolen property and .

On Feb. 13, Roseville Police . A vacant house on Donnelly Court was burglarized, and a group of teens was seen running away. .

Vehicle-Related Crime:

Between 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. on Feb. 5, someone stole a red 1996 Honda Civic hatchback from the 1500 block of Vineyard Road.   The Sacramento Police Department found the car, stripped and unoccupied, on Feb. 7.

Between 2:45 p.m. and 11:15 p.m. on Feb. 5, a car parked at Kaiser Hospital on Eureka was broken into, and a backpack was stolen.  The next day, the Citrus Heights Police Department arrested a 25-year-old male in an unrelated incident, and found some of the victim's property in his car. The suspect was booked into the Sacramento County Jail on suspicion of possessing stolen property and other charges.

Between 5:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. on Feb. 7, someone stole the tailgate from a black Chevy Silverado pickup parked in the 300 block of Hemphill Way.

Between 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 6 and 7 a.m. on Feb. 7, someone stole a tailgate from a white Ford F250 pickup parked at an apartment complex on Marcia Way.

Between 11 p.m. on Feb. 9 and 7:45 a.m. on Feb. 10, someone pried open the door of a vehicle parked in an apartment complex at 1801 Eureka Road, and took an iPod and other small items.

Between 12:15 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. on Feb. 9, someone broke the window of an SUV parked at the Sierra College Boulevard/Miner's Ravine trailhead, and took a purse containing a wallet, keys, and credit cards.  The victim's credit card was soon used to make fraudulent charges. The victim had concealed her purse under the passenger's seat.

A tip from Roseville Police: There aren't any good places to hide valuables in your vehicle.  Please don't leave your purse, wallet or other valuables in your parked car.  If you're going on a walk or bike ride, we recommend taking your ID and anything else you might need with you, and leaving your other valuables at home.

Metal Thefts:

Sometime before Feb. 1, someone stole brass pipe fittings from recycled-water systems on Fiddyment Road and the south side of Hayden Parkway.

Sometime on Feb. 3, someone stripped copper wire from a cell phone tower at Roseville Parkway and Galleria Boulevard.

Sometime on Feb. 3, copper was stolen from a cell phone tower in the 1100 block of Smith Lane.

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