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Danville police trying to solve burglaries, thefts

August 10, 2007|TODD KLEFFMAN

Danville police are hoping to connect two recent burglaries on Maple Avenue to a Harrodsburg man they arrested on warrants from Kansas and Missouri.

The man was arrested July 31 on a warrant from Kansas for aggravated burglary and one from Missouri for vehicle tampering.

Kansas has agreed to extradite the man, said interim Danville Police Chief Tony Gray.

Police picked up the man after he approached the attendant at Off Centre Laundry, asked to borrow $15 and offered to leave his ID card as collateral. The attendant's parents became suspicious and called Danville police to check him out. When he returned to the laundry the next day to pick up his ID, he was arrested on the outstanding warrants, Gray said.

Investigators are now trying to link him to burglaries that occurred July 30 at 625 and 501 N. Maple Ave., in which a purse and other items were taken.

Evidence taken from the man and one of the burglaries has been sent to Frankfort to determine if there is a connection, Gray said.

Police also are advising residents of North Third Street to lock their homes and cars after an increase in "crimes of opportunity" and suspicious persons sightings have been reported in the last two weeks.

Gray said two burglaries and two thefts from cars have occurred along North Third between Danville Centre for Health and Rehabilitation and Candlewood subdivision.

Police spoke to a man who was "checking door handles on cars" earlier this week but did not charge him because he was not caught in the act of committing a crime, Gray said.

A man was found in a garage at 626 N. Third St. but escaped before police arrived. Items from the garage and perhaps other burglaries were dropped as the man was fleeing, Gray said.

"These have been crimes of opportunity where things have been left unlocked," Gray said. "There haven't been any forced entries that I'm aware of."

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