String Of Home Robberies Hits Valley, Hills
- A string of burglaries continued this weekend targeting homes in the San Fernando Valley and Hollywood Hills. - Thieves hit two more houses over the weekend, adding to an ongoing wave of residential break-ins. - Neighbors report rising concern and increased patrols as detectives investigate; police urge vigilance (patch.com).
Two more homes were burglarized over the weekend in Toluca Lake and the Hollywood Hills, extending a weekslong run of break-ins across the San Fernando Valley and nearby hillside neighborhoods. (mynewsla.com) Los Angeles police responded around 3:30 a.m. Sunday to the 3100 block of Lake Hollywood Drive, where a back door had been forced open, and around 4:20 p.m. Saturday to the 4200 block of Clybourn Avenue in Toluca Lake, where a side window had been smashed. Police said it was not immediately clear what, if anything, was taken in either case. (mynewsla.com) Those two cases followed a burst of earlier break-ins that started April 11. In Sherman Oaks, one home on Davana Terrace was hit on back-to-back nights, and burglars stole about $100,000 in jewelry from a home on Macapa Drive in the Hollywood Hills on April 11 after residents walked in during the crime. (patch.com) By April 19, local reports put the count at nine home burglaries since April 11 in and around the Valley. The Los Angeles Times reported that the latest weekend break-ins pushed the total to nine, with several of the homes clustered near Ventura Boulevard and in adjacent neighborhoods. (latimes.com) (yahoo.com) Mayor Karen Bass ordered the Los Angeles Police Department to increase patrols along Ventura Boulevard after the recent string of burglaries. ABC7 reported that the city also moved officers closer to the corridor to shorten response times as residents in Studio City, Valley Village, Granada Hills and other neighborhoods reported new incidents. (abc7.com) (foxla.com) Neighbors told ABC7 that some of the recent targets were newer or higher-end homes, especially in Granada Hills and the central Valley. Residents in Studio City and Woodland Hills said they want more frequent overnight patrols after multiple burglaries and at least one attempted break-in with a resident at home. (abc7.com) Police have not publicly said all of the cases are connected, and earlier reports said detectives were still working to determine whether the same crew was responsible. The Los Angeles Police Department’s public crime-mapping page says neighborhood-level burglary data is available through its CompStat and CrimeMapping system, which the department describes as a tool for tracking incidents by area. (patch.com) (lapdonline.org) For now, the pattern is straightforward: forced entries, smashed windows and late-night or evening hits across Valley neighborhoods and the Hollywood Hills, with no public arrests announced in the latest weekend cases. Detectives are still sorting out which break-ins belong to the same spree and which do not. (mynewsla.com) (patch.com)
