Police blotter: Parcel porch thief; mail bandit; meth-in-bra, and more

Thief targets parcels on front porches: A woman on a stolen bike rifled through parcels outside of two homes before disappearing through the unlocked door of a strangers Fano Lane house. The caper culminated at about 2:45 p.m. on June 22 when a neighbor saw a woman in her early twenties (average build, dark hair) ride up on a beach cruiser. The suspect went onto a neighboring porch and began opening boxes, eventually stashing about $175 worth of books and clothing into her backpack. When the witness came outside to inquire as to the legitimacy of her visit, the suspect took off. Leaving behind the bike (it had been stolen from a nearby house), the thief ran into the open garage another house and disappeared. Police say she picked the home at random, then exited to the backyard and a fence-jumping escape. Still at large, the box bandit is implicated in two similar heists in the area.

Rash of mail thefts

The flag on your mailbox may be a red flag. Homes on Vineyard Circle and Fifth Street West are the latest to report their mail in disarray not only their own envelopes opened and emptied, but postal refuse from a different address. Seems the thief (and accomplice?) grabs random stacks of mail, rifles through it for outgoing checks, and then leaves the tattered remains in the next box.

Its always the last place you look

A burned-out license plate bulb, and the fact that the white Cadillac swerved into the bike lane three times, attracted the attention of a trailing police car near midnight on June 23. Deputies smelled pot, but the female driver, 37, from Petaluma, was more into meth: some found in a gum wrapper, more in a baggie under the floor mat. She was arrested for drug possession, which proved just the beginning; when booked into jail, meth and pills were discovered in her bra.

Aisle be seeing you

Attention Safeway shoppers: the gold and pearl ring you may find is not one of the daily specials. The heirloom was reported lost by a woman who said the vintage bling, worth $100 in 1961, slipped off her finger while shopping on January 23.

Hit and run

A red BMW unable to stop for red-light traffic at Highway 12 and West Napa ran into the side of a Toyota truck, then drove away. The driver of the truck, alone in the car, was uninjured in the early evening crash on June 22.

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Police blotter: Parcel porch thief; mail bandit; meth-in-bra, and more