SEPT. 10 — A deputy from the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office’s Acreage/Loxahatchee substation was called last Wednesday afternoon to a home on North Road in Loxahatchee Groves regarding the theft of a goat. According to a PBSO report, the victim fed his 100-pound pet goat at 7 a.m. and noticed that the food was untouched and the goat was missing at 5 p.m. The goat is kept behind several closed gates and would not have been able to escape on its own. According to the report, the goat gates did not show any evidence of tampering, but a golf cart on the property appears to have been tampered with. The victim has also informed Palm Beach County Animal Care & Control about the theft.
SEPT. 10 — A deputy from the PBSO’s Royal Palm Beach substation was called to a home in the Willows II community last Wednesday afternoon regarding a residential burglary. According to a PBSO report, at 2:29 p.m. Wednesday, the victim’s alarm went off. Deputies checked the residence and were told that nothing was missing. Later, the victim discovered a number of items missing, among them four gold wedding rings, a white gold ring surrounded by diamonds, a gold bracelet, a silver men’s watch, a bronze-banded men’s watch, a Lenovo laptop computer and a Microsoft camera, together valued at approximately $3,300. According to the report, pry marks were found on the door frame, indicating that the perpetrator(s) entered through the front door.
SEPT. 12 — A deputy from the PBSO’s Acreage/Loxahatchee substation was called to a home on 51st Court North in The Acreage last Friday morning regarding a stolen vehicle. According to a PBSO report, sometime between 1 and 4 a.m. that morning, the victim’s 2001 Ford truck and attached 2000 Pace American landscaping trailer were stolen from the driveway. According to the report, the trailer contained multiple landscaping items, including a mower, edgers, blowers and more, with a value of at least $20,000. There were no witnesses or suspects at the time of the report.
SEPT. 12 — A deputy from the PBSO’s Acreage/Loxahatchee substation was called to a home on 59th Street North in The Acreage last Friday morning regarding a vehicle burglary. According to a PBSO report, the victim’s truck and lawn trailer were backed up against a tree at his nursery. Sometime between 5:30 p.m. last Thursday and 7:30 a.m. the following morning, someone punched the driver’s-side door lock, opened the door and engine hood, jumped the starter and moved the truck far enough away from the tree to enter the trailer. According to the report, 18 small engine hand tools, valued at approximately $6,109.70, were stolen from the trailer. According to the report, the trailer had been burglarized before and had not yet been repaired. Parking against the tree was the trailer’s only security.
SEPT. 12 — A deputy from the PBSO’s Royal Palm Beach substation was called to a Verizon/AT&T cell tower last Friday afternoon regarding a theft. According to a PBSO report, a contractor was at the tower on Monday, Sept. 8, and everything was in order. When he returned on Friday, at 2:30 p.m., the contractor discovered that a large amount of copper wire, valued at $1,000, was missing from the generator and radio cabinet. According to the report, the perpetrator(s) left behind a piece of cloth, presumed to be used to remove prints, and a piece of plastic pipe from the radio cabinet. Due to heavy rain, fingerprints and DNA evidence were not available. The plastic pipe was sent for testing. According to the report, the perpetrator(s) likely had advanced electrical knowledge.
SEPT. 12 — A deputy from the PBSO’s Royal Palm Beach substation was called to the TJ Maxx store on State Road 7 last Friday night regarding a case of shoplifting. According to a PBSO report, sometime between 7:30 and 9 p.m., Michael McCullough concealed various items of clothing, valued at $141.90, under his clothing and exited the store before being detained. He was arrested and charged with larceny and petit theft.
SEPT. 14 — A deputy from the PBSO’s Wellington substation was called to a home in Sugar Pond Manor on Sunday morning regarding the theft of auto parts. According to a PBSO report, sometime between midnight and 7:30 a.m. Sunday, someone stole a tire and rim, valued at $750, from the victim’s 2012 Toyota Camry that was parked in his driveway. There was no further information available at the time of the report.
SEPT. 14 — A deputy from the PBSO’s Acreage/Loxahatchee substation was called to a home on Sunset Blvd. in The Acreage last Sunday morning regarding a stolen 1997 E-Z-GO Freedom TXT golf cart. According to a PBSO report, the victim’s residence has a wire fence around the perimeter with gates to exit and enter. According to the report, the victim had a guest leave at approximately 1 a.m. Sunday morning, and at 11 a.m., he discovered one of the gates open and the golf cart missing. It appeared, according to the report, that someone had entered the property through the unlocked gate, pushed the golf cart out to the road, and then either drove it away or loaded it into a trailer.
SEPT. 14 — A deputy from the PBSO’s Royal Palm Beach substation was called to the Walmart Superstore on Belvedere Road last Sunday afternoon regarding a vehicle burglary. According to a PBSO report, the victim was loading groceries into the passenger side of her 2015 Ford F350 truck when an unidentified man opened the driver’s-side door and stole her purse. According to the report, the man is described as either Caucasian or Hispanic, with brown hair and brown eyes, 5’7’’ tall, weighting approximately 160 pounds and wearing a blue T-shirt and khaki shorts. He either has facial hair or was unshaven. The perpetrator escaped through the store’s parking lot, heading south on State Road 7 in a two-door compact car that is either a faded blue or a gray Toyota.
SEPT. 15 — A resident of Cheetham Hill Blvd. called the PBSO’s Acreage/Loxahatchee substation on Monday regarding a case of vandalism. According to a PBSO report, sometime between 7 p.m. last Friday and 9 a.m. last Saturday, the victim’s mailbox had been smashed. According to the report, the victim recalled hearing a vehicle on his driveway. There was no further information available at the time of the report.
SEPT. 15 — A deputy from the PBSO’s Royal Palm Beach substation was called to a home on Fairway Lane on Monday morning regarding a residential burglary. According to a PBSO report, the home was burglarized sometime between 4 and 6:35 a.m. According to the report, someone removed an Xbox One gaming system and two games, as well as the corresponding wires, valued at approximately $500. According to the report, the deputy suspects that the perpetrator(s) ripped the screen from the lower part of the screen door, entered the porch, removed the screen from the window and entered the home.
SEPT. 15 — A deputy from the PBSO’s Acreage/Loxahatchee substation was called Monday morning to a home on Orange Blvd. in The Acreage regarding a residential burglary. According to a PBSO report, the home is in the process of a remodeling. Sometime between Saturday afternoon and Monday morning, the electrical panel on the west side of the residence was disassembled and the main electrical copper wire was stolen. There was also damage to the conduit piping and electrical box. The locked French doors at the rear of the home were forced open, and the utility room electrical panel was partially taken apart. According to the report, the wires were pulled from the conduit in the utility room, as well as from the electrical box in the converted detached garage.
SEPT. 15 — A deputy from the PBSO’s Royal Palm Beach substation was called Monday morning to the Cypress Head construction site on Southern Blvd. regarding a burglary. According to a PBSO report, someone removed scrap metal consisting of fire hydrants and old pipes, valued at approximately $2,000, using an onsite CAT 950 medium wheel loader.
SEPT. 15 — A deputy from the PBSO’s Wellington substation was called to the Sunglass Hut store in the Mall at Wellington Green on Monday afternoon regarding a shoplifting incident. According to a PBSO report, at 2:23 p.m., a man and woman entered the store and walked over to the Dolce & Gabbana display. According to the report, the woman selected a pair of Dolce & Gabbana sunglasses, valued at $385, and concealed them in her handbag before exiting the store. The shoplifting incident was recorded on video. The woman has been tentatively identified, but the man remains unidentified.
SEPT. 15 — A deputy from the PBSO’s Wellington substation was called Monday evening to a home on Cantebury Circle regarding a residential burglary. According to a PBSO report, the victim left the residence at approximately 5 p.m. Monday and returned at 10 p.m. to discover that the home had been broken into. Two large televisions were in the front foyer, most likely placed by the perpetrator(s) to be loaded into a vehicle. According to the report, the victim showed the deputy the back sliding glass door, where there was a wooden security stick that had been removed with a small tool. According to the report, the victim is missing multiple pieces of jewelry and an Apple laptop computer, valued at $2,000. DNA evidence was collected at the scene.
SEPT. 16 — A deputy from the PBSO’s Acreage/Loxahatchee substation was called Tuesday morning regarding a theft at a home on 93rd Road North in The Acreage. According to a PBSO report, sometime between 9 p.m. Monday and 6:30 a.m. Tuesday, someone stole a Genesis mountain bicycle, valued at $140, from the side of the victim’s residence. According to the report, the bicycle was unsecured, but the perpetrator would have had to jump a fence or gone through a closed gate to gain access.
SEPT. 16 — A deputy from the PBSO’s Acreage/Loxahatchee substation was called Tuesday afternoon to a home on 40th Run North regarding a criminal mischief complaint that turned out to be a shooting. According to a PBSO report, a husband and wife called PBSO because the wife noticed that their son’s bedroom window was broken and discovered a bullet. The day before, around 6 p.m. on Monday, the husband thought he heard a shotgun being fired. The family lives adjacent to multiple empty lots, an abandoned home and a densely wooded area. According to the report, the bullet hit their son’s bunk bed on the northern side of the residence. Photographs were taken at the scene and entered into evidence.
