Last updated Dec 17, 2011 | Published on Dec 17, 2011 | Neighborhood Watch
Greetings Net,
For those in the vicinity of the Rockledge Country Club, specifically in the area of Hagan Lane located across Fiske Boulevard, the following might explain why you noted the Rockledge Police Department and support agencies responding to the area on Thursday, 15 December 2011. The story was aired on Fox News and is provided, in part with a few changes from the original text. The homeowner providing the story below is a senior citizen, a little over 85 years young:
(PROVIDED IN PART) WE HAD A LITTLE EXCITEMENT ALONG HAGAN LANE, A BLACK MALE CHOSE TO ENTER MY HOME. UNBEKNOWNST TO ME, HE HID IN MY CLOSET. COPS ALL OVER THE PLACE LOOKING FOR HIM.
I HAD A NEIGHBOR CALL ALERTING ME OF SOMEONE IN THE AREA. HE PROBABLY ENTERED WHILE I WAS IN THE KITCHEN (BACK DOOR ENTRY).
I WAS CONVERSING WITH BACK-DOOR NEIGHBORS ABOUT THE SITUATION AND TURNED TO LEAVE THE ROOM, CLOSET DOOR AJAR = AHA!! I OPENED IT AND HE WAS THERE. #%*@!!!, GET THE HELL OUT OF MY HOUSE. HE BACKED ME UP AND I STARTED SCREAMING, I WENT DOWN (BAD LEGS) AND SCREAMED SOME MORE. HE COVERED MY MOUTH AND ASKED ME NOT TO TELL ON HIM.
HE WAS NOT ROUGH OR RUDE TO ME AND I WAS FURIOUS. ANYHOO – I TOLD HIM I WANTED HIM OUT OF MY HOUSE! HE LEFT THE BACK ROOM AND I OPENED THE DOOR AND MOTIONED TO FOLKS ON THE BACK FENCE THAT HE WAS IN THERE. HE CAME BACK AND I REPEATED MY EXHORTATION ABOUT THE HOUSE, OPENED THE DOOR WIDE AND TOLD HIM TO LEAVE.
HE JUMPED THE FENCE AND I THOUGHT I WAS DONE. APPARENTLY, HE RE-ENTERED MY YARD AND JUMPED THE WOOD FENCE TO THE NORTH. THE HELICOPTER SPOTTED HIM A COUPLE HOUSES NORTH. OUR COPS WORKED WELL. …
The individual was apprehended and taken into custody. If I receive any further information regarding this arrest, I will pass it to you. I am unsure why the individual was trying to hide from the police; I can only speculate that he was being sought because someone contacted the Rockledge Police Department and reported him as a suspicious person in their neighborhood or saw him committing a crime.
Please ask yourself right now, “Do I have a door unlocked that would be best if locked, are any windows opened in a room that is not occupied, did I leave my garage door open, is my car in the driveway locked and valuables out of site, do I have reasonable lighting around my home to illuminates the area at night, and if someone knocked on my door and I noted it was a stranger – what would I do (what would my children do)?” Now wonder if your neighbor is reading this e-mail and / or taking the same precautions as to not draw attention to your area. You are your neighbors’ eyes and ears as are they to your home. It has to be a team thing.
Please be vigilant, be involved and be safe – work together to present your piece of the community as a hardened target against criminal activity.
Network Administrator
Last updated Dec 17, 2011 | Published on Dec 17, 2011 | Neighborhood Watch
The following message was received by a fellow neighborhood watch point of contact (thanks DK). The community in which the vehicle was noted in is in Viera, neighboring Rockledge communities along Murrell Boulevard. If more information is received regarding the vehicle, I will pass it to you.
Please, report the sighting of suspicious vehicles and individuals in your community timely to local law enforcement and let them investigate. You could prevent someone from becoming a victim.
Network Administrator
(Thanks KD)
———- Forwarded message ———- From: Osprey Date: Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 4:12 PM Subject: Suspicious Semi truck Osprey Residents,
There’s a suspicious semi truck driving through our neighborhood currently. Doors are open with plastic-wrapped furniture inside (presumably for a furniture delivery). No company name on the outside. They seem to be quickly knocking on doors, progressing house by house (so it doesn’t seem to be a specific delivery); perhaps trying to sell furniture.
Either way, it’s suspicious. Take note. Brevard Sheriff has been called to investigate.
Kind regards, Osprey Secretary Osprey Residential District Association ospreyrda@me.com
Published on Dec 9, 2011 | Neighborhood Watch
Greetings Net,
While the following pertains specifically to the latest victims of criminal activity, located in Chelsea Park along Barnes between Murrell and US 1, this could easily be any community in Rockledge. Please read, understand and work to deter being the next community targeted.
Burglaries are on the rise as would be expected this time of year – you have to remain vigilant and you have to CALL if you HEAR, SEE or SUSPECT anything that might be a criminal act in the making.
POLICE ALERT (provided in part):
In the early morning hours of Thursday, 8 December, residents of Chelsea Park became victims of multiple burglaries. Investigation so far has revealed that:
– No less than 10 vehicle burglaries were committed.
– All vehicles, so far, were left unlocked.
– While some vehicle security alarm(s) sounded in the wee hours of the morning – not one call was made to the police department to report the alarms(s).
The Rockledge Police Department needs your assistance. Please contact Staff Assistant Miller, Criminal Investigations Department, Rockledge Police Department at (321) 690-3988 if:
– If your vehicle was broken into or tampered with, even if you just suspect tampering.
– If you have any information regarding these burglaries; if you aren’t quite sure, report it – it might make a difference.
– If you have a surveillance or security camera monitoring your property, it may have captured the criminals in the area.
To all, you must remain vigilant and report anything suspicious timely, and when you have a gut feel that something might not be right, make the call – it could make a difference as to whether or not someone is the next victim.
Network Administrator
Last updated Dec 1, 2011 | Published on Dec 1, 2011 | Neighborhood Watch
EXTENDING A GIFT OF APPRECIATION TO THE THIEVES THAT WALK YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD
Date:
November 29, 2011 10:32:14 AM EST
Greetings Net,
Note: – This e-mail is not promoting nor soliciting the
providing of a gift or gratuity to any individual; it is simply providing an
awareness to those that elect to give someone something for a service rendered
within a neighborhood.
– The intent is to discourage an attraction to the
criminal element walking your streets.
– While this e-mail addresses the subject locally, please
share this with others as it no doubt applies in any community nationwide.
Throughout the city, especially around this time of year, some residents elect to provide
a card, gift and or gratuity to those public servants that render a
service to their community throughout the year, whether that is the mail
carrier, waste management representatives, meter reader, etc … . The
delivery technique for accomplishing this ranges from placing a card intended
for a mail carrier in a mail box to leaving a card intended for a waste
management worker taped to the inside of a trash can.
Heads up; it is no secret to the criminals that walk our streets that many residents
will be providing something to a service provider this time of year and
therefore; and there are those individuals that will try to intercept that gift
of appreciation for their own benefit.
In years past residents have seen individuals walking the streets checking trash
cans for cards that are set on top or taped inside the lid and individual mail
boxes that have envelopes marked for the mail carrier. The outcome is,
throughout the city, residents are unintentionally rewarding the
thieves walking our neighborhoods.
The best means to get your appreciation to the individual you intend it
for is to hand it to them personally. If you can’t do that because you
are not home when they come around your neighborhood, ask a neighbor who is
home to assist you.
For the sanitation / waste management workers, if you cannot catch
them during the day as they pass through, rather than placing your card with
the canisters on the street and subjecting it to theft, contact the Public
Works Department and ask them to assist with the card delivery. As with
most businesses and organizations, they do not promote nor encourage gratuities
for employees, but they will most likely assist with the delivery of a sealed
envelope to an employee. If you do not have the name of the
individual(s), you need only provide the street name that you live along to
assist in finding the name of the individual(s) assigned to that route.
If you want more info on this assistance, the phone number for the City
of Rockledge Waste Management Department is (321)
690-3961.
It is time to be extra vigilant. The times have been
harsh to many and some may elect to solve a need by taking from another – – –
residential crime will increase at the onset of the Holidays. Be safe and
report the suspicious acts of others. It has always been recommended to
have local law enforcement check out that stranger walking your street – let
them know that their presence is known. “No
call is too small” – 690-3988.
Network
Administrator
Published on Nov 29, 2011 | Neighborhood Watch
This is a copy of recent email from neighborhood watch with some important information:
Good information related to deliveries — please spread the word — always looking for more folks to add to our neighborhood watch family. This E-mail is only going to 39 out of 93 homes in 3 Meadows Phase III.
Really should be more.
Warren C. Weld
warrenweld@yahoo.com
321-305-4000
From: Howard Miller <integrated.email.network@gmail.com>
Subject: COM 111129: SPECIAL DELIVERY – AND THERE IT GOES
Date: November 28, 2011 4:41:31 PM EST
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Bcc: warrenweld@yahoo.com
Greetings Net,
In past years there have been reports, especially at the onset of the Holidays, of packages delivered to residences disappearing. Residents return home from a days work, check the delivery status of a package they were expecting, only to find out that it was delivered, but yet there was nothing found at the front door.
UPS, FEDEX and even special delivery USPS vehicles are highly visible targets for someone wanting to do some Holiday shopping at the front doors of others. Most packages these days are delivered to the front of a residence and left with nothing more than the delivery service ringing a door bell; and off they go before a resident gets to the door, if they are even home to begin with. That is why most of these thefts take place during the weekday – fewer people are home, fewer witnesses to dodge.
Take what precautions the delivery service can provide, possibly ask a neighbor to watch for a package that you have tracked and know will be delivered on a specific day, or better still, have it sent to a friend or neighbor you know will be home to accept it.
If you see a suspicious vehicle that “may” be tailing a delivery truck, contact the local law enforcement timely and give as much information as you can – as these vehicles will most likely be in and out of a community quickly.
– Non-emergency: 321-690-3988
– Emergency: 911
Remember, the Rockledge Police Department’s motto is “no call is too small“. Make the call, help them help us, even if you call based on a gut feel – they can sort it out.
Thanks for your assistance, we are stronger in numbers and we do make a difference,
Network Administrator
