Crime report: Donation jar among victims

Police still offering $1000 reward
I hope George Whobrey, arrested for taking a donation jar with cash from the Moore's Lane Mapco on July 29, really needed the cash.
The crime was just one of several included on the just-released Brentwood Crime Report covering the last two weeks. Capt. Jeff Hughes has been in training and unavailable to file the report until today.
He was still in town, however, and in the office preparing for his conference, when the call came in July 25 for a burglary in progress on Brentwood Parkway. It turned out to be the burglary that stopped life in Brentwood at the corner of Franklin Road and Old Hickory Boulevard that afternoon for several hours while lookie loos kept watch on the police action and response from both BPD and Metro officers. The officers' actions led to the arrest of Thomas Stoll.
The crime report also includes the previously reported actions on July 26 that led to the arrest of Mitchell Clemons, Abanzer Tsegaye and a juvenile for a residential burglary on Manley Drive. A search for the suspects in west Brentwood neighborhoods and an automated telephone call from the police department had residents on alert. (http://tinyurl.com/BWarrests)
Chief Ricky Watson told me last week that he thinks at least one other burglar or team of burglars is responsible for some of the recently reported burglaries. Capt. Hughes told me on Tuesday, however, that all has been quiet in the last week, so either they are laying low after learning about the all-out police response relating to the other cases, or perhaps they have moved on. Both officers stressed the importance of citizens staying on alert, locking homes and cars, and always calling the department if you see any suspicious activity. Quick action by the victims in the July 25 and 26 cases helped lead to the subsequent arrests.
Other recent crimes reported include:
Power tools and camera equipment were taken from a Davis Drive home. Two suspects have been identified. Power tools and a generator taken from a garage in a vacant house on Brunswick Drive late July 30 or early July 31.
Five thefts from motor vehicles were reported between July 26 and Aug. 4. In four cases, the vehicles were unlocked.
A GPS, USB cable transmitter were taken from a vehicle on Southerland Place in the Mayfield subivision. A radar detector and CDs were taken during the same time frame from a vehicle on nearby Meadowlawn Drive. A GPS and iPod were taken from a vehicle parked on River Oaks' Paddock Place between July 30 and July 31, and a purse and checks were taken from a car parked at the Franklin Road Exxon in north Brentwood on Aug. 4.
On July 27, two vehicles parked at 200 Powell Place in Maryland Farms had their catalytic converters cut off .
No robberies were reported, but eight incidences of general theft were. They include:
A pipe cutter, wrenches and a bucket taken from an unlocked garage between July 13 and July 27 at a Woodland Hills home; credit and debit cards taken from a purse in the Pear Tree Avenue office on July 27; a wallet and its contents taken from a purse while the victim shopped at the Franklin Road Kroger.
Arrests were made and suspects named in two separate shoplifting cases at Ross Dress for Less on Galleria Boulevard and suspects have been named in two cases involving theft of company funds.
The city itself was a victim, when someone forced open the front door of the building at Crockett Park. Nothing was reported taken. And between July 29 and 30, a lawnmower was taken from a storage unit behind Glover and Glover on Wilson Pike Circle following a forced entry. It was later recovered.
Recent vandalism cases still under investigation
The city is offering at $1000 reward for information leading to the arrests of suspects in several vandalism crimes included in the report.
Twenty-nine mailboxes were damaged on Moores Lane, Gordon Petty Drive, Maryland Lane and Covington Drive in Brenthaven between July 27 and July 29. During that same time period, windows were broken out of several cars in the Brentwood Pointe condominium complex. A window was also broken out of a vehicle on Shady Place, also in Brenthaven, between July 27 and 28.
And in yet another disgusting report of vandalism in Oak Hall, feces was spread on another Ansley Drive resident's front door.
If you have any information about these incidents, please share it with the Brentwood Police Department at 371-0160 (http://tinyurl.com/BWreward). It seems like only arrests and prosecution will stop some of these "pranks" that are not funny at all.