SHERIFF’S BLOTTER


 

Agoura Hills

In a scene straight out of a scary movie, a woman told Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputies that she was in her car parked at Vons on Kanan Road around 9:30 p.m. Oct. 28 when two men—maybe three—made her scream. She heard a noise at the driver’s window, looked up, and saw a man in skeleton-print clothing, complete with skeleton mask, tapping on the glass. He then tried to open the door, she said. Another man dressed all in black was knocking on the front passenger window. She looked in the rear-view mirror and saw what initially looked like a third man, although it may have been a shadow. The knocking continued and the woman started screaming. The men got into a car parked next to the woman and drove off. She followed and provided a description of the car and the license plate to authorities. Deputies tried but were not able to reach the registered owner. The call was classified as suspicious circumstances: tapping on the vehicle.

A man returned to his Rainbow Crest Drive home on Oct. 22 to find his rear kitchen glass door shattered. Tools inside his garage were out-of-place, he told authorities, but there was nothing missing. Damage to the door was estimated at $1,000.

Calabasas

Four people shoplifted cosmetics from the Ulta store on Calabasas Road on Oct. 31. They entered around 5:30 p.m. and proceeded to put the goods in their bags. The group then ran outside, hopped in a black sedan, and sped off. A witness told authorities he shot some video of the car, but as of the date of the incident report, he had yet to provide a copy to law enforcement.

Package theft was caught on a woman’s Ring doorbell camera on Oct. 26. The woman told authorities she was alerted to the theft on Blackbird Way by her phone. The loss was estimated at $200.

A $500 gift card intended as a surprise was instead used by a thief, according to the purchaser. The woman told authorities she picked up the $500 MasterCard gift card, a gift for a client at Polacheck’s Jewelers, at the Commons at Calabasas on Oct. 20. Several days later, she checked on the balance of the unopened card and found just $1.26 of purchasing power. The rest, according to the card account, was used at a Walmart store in Oxnard.

Petty theft is how authorities classified the alleged loss of $80 to $100 by a woman on Park South Street. The woman told authorities she spent the night with a guy she’d met on Tinder in late September. She said she’d had the money in her purse, but the next day it was gone. The man said he didn’t know anything. Neither did his roommates. Nevertheless, the man said he would be happy to give her whatever she thought she’d lost. The woman declined and instead notified the sheriff’s department.

Westlake Village

Someone vandalized two signs at the Shoppes at Westlake Village on Russell Ranch Road sometime between Oct. 21 and 25, causing more than $3,000 in damage. According to an incident report, letters were shoved into the signs, and a metal stake was used to break lights inside the signs.

More than $3,000 worth of the anti-diabetic medication Ozempic; $2,000 worth of terazosin, used to treat an enlarged prostate; and $1,000 worth of the anti-inflammatory colchicine were reported stolen Oct. 13 from a room at the Residence Inn on Russell Ranch Road. The victim said hotel staff were asked to deliver his belongings to his room. The medications apparently didn’t make it. Hotel management said a staff member had made the delivery, leaving the bag in question on the kitchen table inside the room. When the guest didn’t accept their word, hotel staff told the man to fill out a police report. He called 911. When deputies arrived, they found the door to his room open and the man seriously ill. Paramedics were called and the man was taken to Los Robles Regional Medical Center in Thousand Oaks for treatment.