Car Burglaries

There have been a handful of car thefts within the past couple of days! Please be aware and keep your cars in your garages and/or locked with valuables removed/out of sight in your driveways; streets are never a good place to park overnight, but if you can't avoid it try to park under a street lamp. Click here for more ideas how to avoid car theft.

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Gina,

A police officer knocked on our door this morning. Someone broke into Zach's truck last night and stole his stereo and other little things. The officer said that there had been four others so far this morning that he'd responded to.

I thought I'd let you know :)

Crappy thieves.

Jen

Peeping Tom Alert!

Please read the following comment that was left by an Area 6 neighbor:
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I live in Foxboro North so I guess that would be area 6 and I wanted to let all of you foxboro people know some disturbing things that happened last night in our area. We live on Hillingdon Court which is the first circle after the foxboro south neighborhood. I was going to bed and looked out my window and saw a man looking into our across the street neighbors window. I watched him for a little while because I thought it was the owner of the house checking his sprinklers or something. I quickly realized he was not the owner. He was peeking into our neighbors bathroom window. My husband went down and opened our garage to scare him off and it did. He ran before I could see where he went. We called our neighbors to let them know and they came out and checked around their house but no sign of him. A few minutes later we saw a red 4 door car drive out of our circle. We did not recognize the car, but did not get a good look at who was driving or the license plate or the make of the car. If anyone sees a man in his 20's, driving a red 4 door car with some sort of rack on the top, this could be our peeping Tom. It happened at 10pm and he was wearing a white T-shirt and dark shorts. We called the police and they have opened a case on it. If you have any info or saw anything around this time in the foxboro north area call the police. Thanks!

Area 3 Break-in!

E-mail sent from Area 3 Coordinator:

Everyone,

I just wanted to let you know that one of our neighbors' home was burglarized on Saturday night / Sunday morning. It happened some time after midnight at the Freestones' home in Haworth Circle, while they were camping. They had a number of items stolen, including her wedding ring. If anyone patrolling that night saw anything suspicious, please contact the NSL police - please also send me an email. One thing that you should also be aware of, they broke in by taking a crow-bar and prying the sliding glass door (in the back) off the track. During this busy vacation season, we all need to be extra vigilant to look out for each others' homes and not only looking for suspicious activity while patrolling, but all the time.

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Stewart B. Harman

Area One Meeting

Thursday, July 2nd @ 7pm

The Big Foxboro Park

(bring the family!)

Everyone in Area One is invited!

Suspicious Door-to-Door Salesman

Please read and pass on this suspicious activity, given to us by an Area Two neighbor. Thanks!

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A suspicious older man came around to my house and others starting off with "Oh... oopp I was hoping a woman would answer the door." "No offense.. didn't I talk to your wife earlier today?". "No? you look familiar, did I talk with you earlier today?" "No? sorry all of these homes look the same to me."

He was also trying to prod for information on when I was at home, etc... I finally told him that I am always home. (lie).

What was also suspicious was that he claimed to be selling oil changes for $12.00 but was not carrying any oil change information with him as far as I could tell. His dress was also poor, generally salesmen dress to impress.

Perhaps you could warn people not to give out information to this guy or others as they maybe casing the neighborhood.

Where?

Wasatch Peak Elementary is located on the corner of Cutler and Cambridge (right behind KangarooZoo and East Coast Subs).

Calling All Foxboro Residents!

Foxboro Neighborhood Watch Meeting

Calling all neighbors – please join us for a Foxboro Community neighborhood watch meeting.

April 16, 2009, 6:30 p.m.
Wasatch Peak Elementary School

North Salt Lake Police and ordinance officers will be in attendance to discuss how to address and clean-up graffiti on public and/or private property.

We will also have an open forum to discuss some of the recent criminal and gang activity in Foxboro.

We are still looking for additional residents to participate in the watch program, including block captains and participants.

If you are interested in getting involved, please contact your block captain or area coordinator. Please join us in helping to keep our community safe.

NEW Area Coordinator!

We're sooooo excited to announce our new Area 5 Coordinator!

Jamie Duncan

She was just barely thrown in to the sharks with us, so she's a little overwhelmed I'm sure. But we're so happy to have her. And congrats to Area 5 for scoring such a great Coordinator. She'll be awesome.

On that same note, we're getting the Foxboro Apartments up and running with Neighborhood Watch as well. An Area Coordinator hasn't been decided upon yet.

Plan on attending the Big Foxboro Neighborhood Watch Meeting in April (details TBA, check back with us later) to meet Jamie, as well as other Area Coordinators and Block Captains, participate in our Open Forum, get up-to-date prevention tips from local police, and much more!

See you soon!

Break-in Prevention Tip

Read the following e-mail received from a local Foxboro neighbor on a prevention tip:
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"In addition to the padlocks in our old neighborhood we were told to buy individual door alarms. You can buy them in a pack of 4 for around $10. We found them at Ross, but Khols, Target, etc should carry them too. They just attach to the top of your door frame and when opened an alarm starts blaring. We bought them to actually alert us to when our children were escaping. :)Sometimes we couldn't hear from our bedroom door to the backdoor and these came in super handy. They have 3 settings on them 1 being the constant loud alarm, the 2nd one beeps for 30 seconds and the 3rd is the silent position. They are these tiny plastic suckers but they sure can be loud and scary and I'm sure would they have an intruder running from the area pretty fast thinking that it was a real house alarm.

They worked really well for the purpose we used them for and I'm sure it would work great as an extra precaution along with the stick in the door. etc. They can also be bought and used specifically for windows. Just a thought."

Attempted Break-in {Area 5}

An e-mail from an Area 5 neighbor:

"Our next door neighbor, 324 Birmingham, heard some noise coming from his kitchen early (6 AM-ish) this past Saturday morning. He went down, with a baseball bat, to investigate and saw a person with a ski-mask who had just opened his LOCKED sliding glass door from the outside. The person saw Russ and his baseball bat and took off. Russ called the police who came and searched pretty much every backyard in the North town-homes but didn't find anything. Russ and his family are fine, and the guy didn't break anything or get in the house to take anything. The police did say that 90% of the gates (ours included) were not padlocked, and they recommended that we all get padlocks. My first thought was if someone wants to get into a house, I don't think a fence or padlock is going to stop them. But, my husband pointed out that if they are trying to take something, say a computer or TV or anything really, they are going to have a harder time getting it over a fence than if they just took it through an unlocked gate.
You may want to remind people in our community via the blog to padlock their fence if they haven't already done so. We also put a big wooden stick in our sliding glass door to add one more obstacle."