From: Wolf, Walter [mailto:Walter.Wolf@lcso.org]
Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2010 9:30 PM
To: Wolf, Walter
Subject: Crime Watch

Hope everyone is having a good weekend. I wanted to talk to all the crime watch groups about a concern that one of the local police departments crime watch coordinators recently brought to my attention, and at the same time reemphasis something that I talk about at all the crime watch meetings. As those of you that have attended one of my meetings know I always advise you that the crime watch program emphasizes that whenever you see something out of the ordinary or suspicious the faster that you notify law enforcement the quicker we can respond and look into the situation. We do not want you to confront the persons or try and interrogate them, that’s law enforcements job. I always tell you that we do not want to see you get hurt nor are you vigilantes.

What has happened with one of the local police departments crime watch areas is that some of the community residents have actually started  stopping people that they do not recognize as members of their community and question them as to why and what they are doing in their neighborhood. That’s not a very  good idea and may actually get you hurt if in fact they are up to no good. So please remember the quicker you notify us the faster we can respond, and that may be the difference of them leaving the area and still being their when we arrive.

Also we have scheduled our next Sheriff’s town hall meeting for Monday August 30, 2010 at 6:30 PM. The location for the town hall meeting will be the First Baptist Church of Umatilla. The church is located on the East side of SR19 behind the McDonalds restaurant on the North side of Umatilla. Please pass the word to all your friends and neighbors and if you live in the general area please try and attend as you will find this to be both a very informative and entertaining meeting.

Everyone take care

Walter

Deputy Walter Wolf

Lake County Sheriff’s Office

Crime Watch Coordinator

Cell 352-267-3655

Office 352-326-8108

From: Wolf, Walter [mailto:Walter.Wolf@lcso.org]
Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2010 7:55 PM
To: Wolf, Walter
Subject: Crime Watch

First of all for the bad news. During the first eleven days of this month we have had seventy vehicles broken into, out of the seventy vehicles sixty seven were  UNLOCKED. You would not believe the number of GPS systems and cell phones, that were taken. Also in at least three of the cases the vehicles batteries were taken (one in the Astor area and the other two in the Leesburg area). There was at least one firearm taken. Now for some good news we did make several juvenile arrests in the Clermont and Leesburg areas for braking into vehicles. In everyone of the arrests the juveniles all stated that all they would do is go to a neighborhood after dark, walk the streets and check parked vehicles for unlocked doors. They all stated that they were not even looking at vehicles that were locked (there were more than enough cars that were unlocked with things of value in them to even worry about busting out a window). Please pass the word to always lock your vehicles whenever they are left unattended.

Just for general information, nationwide there has been an increase in catalytic converter thefts.

We have also had several trailer thefts from the Eustis, Montverde, and Groveland areas. And yes for those that have asked even if the vehicle is unlocked it’s still breaking and entering. Hope all of you have had a good weekend and were not one of the victims!!!!! But I do know for a fact that at least two of the crime watch coordinators were victims of having a unlocked vehicle broken into---what more can I say.

Walter

Deputy Walter Wolf

Lake County Sheriff’s Office

Crime Watch Coordinator

Cell 352-267-3655

Office 352-326-8108

Sent: Monday, July 05, 2010 5:40 PM
To: Wolf, Walter
Subject: Crime Watch

This e-mail is in regards to the e-mail that I sent out to everyone June 21,2010 warning about a e-mail that was circulating warning of homemade explosive soda bottle bombs. In my e-mail I stated that I was concerned about the e-mails advising of the ingredients and basically how to make them. Well unfortunately we have had an incident in the Clermont area where a mail box was blown apart with what appears to have been a homemade soda bottle bomb. Thank God it was a isolated incident and no one was injured. If you should see any bottles that appear to have liquid and any shiny objects(tin foil or aluminum foil) inside of it do not touch it. Call Law Enforcement so it can be checked out.

We have had several incidents in Lake County were twenty dollar counterfeit bills have been passed.

In the Lake Mack area we have had several cases were air conditioner units have been damaged to get the cooper wire. In several of the incidents a white van pulling a black trailer was seen.

Now for this ---In the last thirty days we have had 107 vehicles broken into and guess what ????????  96 were unlocked. Please pass the word to lock your vehicles.

In the very south end of the county we had a white male approximately 30-35 years old driving a newer black van approached two young girls and tried to engage them in   conversation then exposed himself to them. Please warn your children and grand children to never approach strangers and to report any strange activity. You also may want to talk to them about safe houses in your neighborhood that they can run to in a emergency.

Just for your general information we are working on having the next Sheriff’s Town Hall Meeting in Umatilla sometime in August.

Walter  

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