SEPT. 2 — A deputy from the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office substation in Royal Palm Beach was called to a restaurant in the Royal Plaza shopping center last Tuesday morning regarding a burglary. According to a PBSO report, sometime between 11:30 p.m. last Monday and 9 a.m. last Tuesday, someone broke the front door glass, walked to the office and broke the office door to gain entry. According to the report, the perpetrator removed a safe from the top of a cabinet containing approximately $10,000 cash and $2,000 worth of gift cards. Fingerprint evidence and DNA evidence was collected at the scene.
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AUG. 29 — A deputy from the PBSO’s Royal Palm Beach substation was called to a fitness facility on Southern Blvd. in the early morning hours of Friday, Aug. 29 regarding a vehicle burglary. According to a PBSO report, the victim was in the facility for an hour and a half, arriving at 9:30 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 28. She left her keys on the key holder, but when she went to leave, the keys were missing. According to the report, she later found the keys on the driver’s seat of her 2012 Toyota Corolla and discovered that her wallet was missing.
AUG. 29 — A deputy from the PBSO’s Royal Palm Beach substation met Friday, Aug. 29 with the victim of a theft. According to a PBSO report, the victim runs a vitamin business and has vitamins shipped to her home on Meadowlark Drive. According to the report, a shipment, valued at $9,718, was delivered to her home on Aug. 25 and left by the door. She was unaware that the shipment had been delivered. Before she was able to retrieve the packages, someone stole them. The victim checked with her neighbors, but there were no suspects or witnesses at the time of the report.
SEPT. 2 — A deputy from the PBSO’s Royal Palm Beach substation was called to the Palm Beach Trace community last Tuesday morning regarding a vehicle burglary. According to a PBSO report, the victim parked his work truck, a 2007 Ford Ranger, by the side of his apartment building at approximately 3 p.m. on Monday. When he went to leave for work at 6 a.m. Tuesday, he noticed that there were items missing from the vehicle. According to the report, someone gained access to the truck by damaging the passenger door lock. The missing items include a laptop, an iPhone 4 and charger, an ID card, a Verizon air card, charging boards and cables, a cigarette lighter, Bluetooth earphones and a charger, two wallets, gift cards to Sears and Walmart, and a drill and bit set. There were no suspects or witnesses at the time of the report.
SEPT. 2 — A deputy from the PBSO’s Royal Palm Beach substation was called to the Walmart store on Belvedere Road last Tuesday evening regarding a theft. According to a PBSO report, sometime between 2:30 p.m. and 8:45 p.m., the victim’s Samsung Galaxy cell phone, valued at $600, was stolen from her purse. According to the report, when the victim called her phone, someone answered and told her he would return the phone for $50. With the help of the PBSO, the victim arranged to meet up with the man, who was identified as Javoris R. Jones. He was arrested and charged with grand theft and dealing with stolen property. The victim’s cell phone was recovered.
SEPT. 4 — An Acreage man called the PBSO’s Acreage/Loxahatchee substation last Thursday morning regarding a case of fraud. According to a PBSO report, the victim discovered Thursday morning that an unknown individual had used his personal information to open a loan with a check cashing company in Texas in the amount of $1,986, which was then transferred into a Wells Fargo bank account. The victim was informed that the loan was two months overdue and had a late fee of $300 added. According to the report, the victim, who had lived in Texas for five years before recently moving to Florida, told the PBSO that he did not open the loan, authorize it or have any previous knowledge about the loan, which was listed with the victim’s name, Social Security number, phone number and address. At the time of the report, the victim was going to follow up with the credit bureaus and Wells Fargo.
SEPT. 4 — A deputy from the PBSO’s Royal Palm Beach substation was called to the Porto Sol community last Thursday afternoon regarding a residential burglary. According to a PBSO report, sometime between 9 a.m. and noon, someone entered a home on Vicara Court. According to the report, the rear sliding door was left unsecured and several televisions, a laptop computer, an iPad, and Xbox and Wii video consoles, valued at more than $2,800, were stolen. There was a dark or charcoal van or SUV seen in the driveway at approximately 11 a.m. DNA evidence and prints were taken from the scene.
SEPT. 5 — A deputy from the PBSO’s Acreage/Loxahatchee substation was called to a home in The Acreage last Friday afternoon regarding a residential burglary. According to a PBSO report, the victim had been living with family elsewhere but returned last week to her residence, a mobile home with a nearby shed. According to the report, she had been regularly checking on the home, but did not notice that the electricity was off until receiving a FP&L deposit. The day she received the check, she returned to the home and had an electrician determine why the home did not have power. According to the report, someone had removed approximately three 150-foot main electrical wires, along with other household wires, from the home, in addition to two pressure washers from her shed. The stolen items were valued at more than $13,000.
SEPT. 7 — A deputy from the PBSO’s Wellington substation was called to the Olympia community on Sunday afternoon regarding a vehicle burglary. According to a PBSO report, the victim left his 2010 Ford van unlocked Saturday while his son was at football practice at Village Park on Pierson Road. According to the report, the victim did not notice anything amiss at the time, but when he logged onto his Apple account Sunday afternoon, he noticed that his older generation iPad, valued at $350, showed a location in Lake Worth. According to the report, the victim then looked under the driver’s seat of his van, where he kept the old iPad, and discovered it was missing. The victim was able to remotely remove his personal information from the device. There were no suspects or witnesses at the time of the report.
SEPT. 7 — A deputy from the PBSO’s Wellington substation was called Sunday evening to the Publix supermarket on Wellington Trace regarding an instance of trespassing. According to a PBSO report, at approximately 5 p.m., a Hispanic male entered the store and placed 32 Gillette razor packages, worth $721.26, in a handheld shopping basket. A manager witnessed the man beginning to hide the items inside his pants in an attempt to conceal the razors. When confronted, he caused a disturbance. According to the report, the suspect was stopped before leaving, did not have any money on him and admitted he was going to take the items. The man was issued a trespass warning forbidding him from entering all Publix stores.
SEPT. 8 — A deputy from the PBSO’s Royal Palm Beach substation was conducting surveillance in the Royal Plaza shopping center early Monday morning due to recent cooking oil thefts in the area. According to a PBSO report, the deputy discovered a van that left one restaurant with cooking oil and proceeded to another oil tank in the plaza before being intercepted. The individuals in the van, which contained a large tank and pump, confessed to stealing cooking oil throughout Palm Beach County. Andrew Grafals of Miramar and Richard Jean Regis of Pembroke Pines were both arrested and charged with grand theft.
SEPT. 8 — A deputy from the PBSO’s Wellington substation was called to the Isles at Wellington community Monday morning regarding a vandalism report. According to a PBSO report, sometime between June and September, someone used an etching tool to damage three benches and a slide around the community. According to the report, “Hitler” and a swastika symbol were etched into a bench near the south side of the clubhouse. There were also swastika symbols found on a bench located on the west side of the basketball court and a bench located on the south side of the playground. In addition, the playground slide was damaged with obscenities and the words “I love you.” It was estimated that there was $1,400 in damages. There were no suspects or witnesses at the time of the report.
