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| 2025-00018081 |
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3/30/25 11:35 AM |
BURGLARY |
SECRET RAVINE PKWY |
The victim has an external garage which is part of his rental. At around 6 p.m. on 03/29 he locked his garage door and went inside for the night. The next day at around 11 a.m., he went outside to his garage and tried to open the door with his garage door opener but it would not open. He was able to finally get into the garage to find the garage door was not opening because it had been forced open at some point. The victim then began to look around and noticed items missing from the garage that were there the night before. Sporting Goods and computers were missing with a total estimated value of $8,500. |
| 2025-00017371 |
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3/26/25 11:24 PM |
BURGLARY |
GALLERIA BLVD |
The victim got to work at 5 p.m. and parked her vehicle behind the business, locked her vehicle, and all windows were rolled up. When the victim came out to her vehicle around 11 p.m., she noticed her rear right passenger window was smashed and her black Coach purse that had her wallet in it was stolen. Inside the victim's wallet was her driver’s license, a debit card, and two credit cards. The victim checked her bank accounts and saw a pending charge on one credit card. The estimated value of window replacement is $400. The purse that was stolen was approximately $300 and the wallet that was stolen was approximately $25. |
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| Police Beat 2 |
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| 2025-00017561 |
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3/27/25 9:08 PM |
BURGLARY |
EUREKA RD |
At approximately 10:07 pm., the police responded to a report of a vehicle burglary. On scene a vehicle with a shattered rear driver side window was observed. The car owner stated he did not have anything taken from the vehicle but two of his passengers did. Victim 1 had a Pink Herschel backpack in the rear seat of the vehicle and stated the backpack had been stolen. The backpack contained several items including a $600 MacBook pro, $800 iPad pro, $3,520 in cash, car keys, $170 air pods, and a wallet including her debit cards and driver’s license. Victim 1 canceled all of her cards that were taken and no purchases were made with them. Vicitm 2 had a 5.11 Backpack In the front passenger seat of the vehicle. Inside of the backpack, Victim 2 was a MacBook Air worth $900, Oakley sunglasses worth $150, and air pods worth $100. |
| 2025-00018361 |
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3/31/25 3:25 PM |
FRAUD |
OAK RIDGE DR |
The victim explained he received a phone call at 11:33 a.m. who he thought was his granddaughter. She explained she was in jail and needed money to get out. She explained she was in a car accident and a pregnant person was in the other vehicle and was hurt. Suspect (1) didn’t want anyone to know so she asked the victim to keep it a secret and advised an attorney would be calling him, and she hung up. At 11:37 a.m., a man called and identified himself as the lawyer and he needed the victim’s help to get his granddaughter out of jail. Suspect (2) would contact the pre-trial intervention and they would instruct how to get his granddaughter out of jail. Suspect (3) called and identified himself as working for pre-trial intervention and requested $9200 to get his granddaughter out of jail. At 1:33 p.m., Suspect (2) called the victim and instructed him to take the money to the car that was in the front of his house. A dark gray small SUV pulled up and the driver was on the phone too. He heard someone instruct the driver to take the money. The victim provided the money to the driver who then left with it. |
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| Police Beat 3 |
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| 2025-00017919 |
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3/29/25 2:48 PM |
ASSAULT |
LEAD HILL BLVD |
Victim said that he was driving his girlfriend’s vehicle with her in the front passenger seat and their two children in the back seat. He explained that they left their residence parking lot and a black car behind them tried to cut around them. The victim said that he tried to move over and the black car pulled up behind them. The victim said that they stopped at the light at Harding Blvd. and Lead Hill Blvd. and the black car pulled up behind them. The victim said his driver’s side window was rolled down, but his doors were locked. He said the driver of the black car got out of his car and walked up to his window, swore at him, and struck him three times. The victim explained that he tried to block his face with his arm and the other driver struck his arm with a closed fist. The victim's girlfriend told the other driver that she was calling the police. The other driver got back in his own car. The victim got out of his car briefly to take a photo of the other vehicle. The victim was also able to give a description of the assailant. Investigation Continued: Police received information related to this case from the Roseville PD Real Time Crime Center (RTCC). The RTCC is staffed with full-time personnel whose function is to assist field units during response to calls for service using all available technology-based resources, including cameras. One of their job duties is to view video in real-time or in playback as applicable. The video is accessed through various video management systems available to the RTCC as part of their daily work functions. This video can be accessed in real-time or accessed in playback. After review of the information received from the RTCC, it was confirmed as an accurate depiction of the events described. The video showed the two cars stopped at the light at Harding Blvd. and Lead Hill Blvd. and depicted the driver of the black vehicle getting out and striking the driver in the white vehicle multiple times and then both vehicles driving away. Police ran the plate of the suspect vehicle and returned the registrant. Contact was not able to be made but all footage from RTCC was booked as evidence, as well as the photos provided by Victim. Information was then forwarded to the Placer County District Attorney’s Office for review and prosecution. |
| 2025-00017688 |
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3/28/25 12:34 PM |
FRAUD |
CAMERON WAY |
The victim stated sometime earlier in the month (03/2025), she received a phone call from (Suspect) a male subject who stated he was an employee of “Lending Tree Loan Company.” During the phone call, the suspect told the victim, he could raise her credit score, if she would be willing to purchase several Sephora gift cards. After hearing this, the victim proceeded to purchase $1680 in Sephora gift cards. Once the victim purchased the gift cards, she was instructed to provide the suspect with the access numbers on each of the gift cards, which she did so. After providing the information to the suspect, she did not hear anything back for a few days. The victim attempted to get in contact with the suspect but was unable to since giving the access numbers to the Sephora gift cards. A few weeks later, the victim was notified via mail that her bank account was being shut down and several charges were being reversed. The victim immediately went to her bank and was advised the account was being closed, and she would be receiving a cashier’s check for the remainder of her funds. Later in the week, the victim stated she received a cashier’s check for her account balance, which she was able to deposit into a new bank account. While at her new bank, the victim was advised the transactions and closing of her bank account was most likely fraud. At this time, the victim reported the incident to law enforcement. |
| 2025-00017170 |
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3/26/25 8:35 AM |
GRAND THEFT |
SOMER RIDGE DR |
Victim stated on 03/25/2025 at approx. 6:30 p.m. she arrived home and parked her vehicle as normal. On 03/26/2025 at approx. 8 a.m. the victim was alerted by her apartment manager of a theft from her vehicle. She then discovered her car was placed on cinder blocks and all four tires were stolen. Victim stated the tires were purchased a year ago at Costco and estimated their replacement value to be approx. $1,000. |
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| Police Beat 4 |
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| 2025-00800108 |
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3/24/25 4:50 AM |
PETTY THEFT |
Duranta Street |
On Monday, March 24,2025, at approximately 4:38 a.m. an Amazon package was delivered and placed on the victim’s front porch. At approximately 4:49 a.m. a dark SUV slowed down in front of the victim’s house and proceeded to park in front of a neighbor’s house. The female driver walked up to the victim’s house in a slow manner while looking around. She first looked at a storage bin near the victim’s window, and then proceeded to the front porch to retrieve the package. She took the package, ran back to her car, got in the driver’s seat, and drove away at approximately 4:54 a.m. This was recorded on the Ring camera. |
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| Police Beat 5 |
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| 2025-00017697 |
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3/27/25 9:00 PM |
GRAND THEFT |
ARTISAN CIR |
The victim said on 3/27/25 at about 9 p.m., her car and truck were parked in her driveway. They were both left unlocked. At the same time, her SUV was parked in front of her residence on the street and was also left unlocked. On 3/28/25 at about 4:30 a.m, an unknown suspect(s) stole multiple items from two of the vehicles. The stolen items included keys, wallets, backpacks, and approximately $1,600 in cash. |
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| Police Beat 6 |
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| 2025-00017116 |
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3/25/25 8:00 PM |
FRAUD |
STONECREST DR |
The victim was contacted by telephone by an “Amazon” employee who said there was an issue with his (Victim’s) computer. In order to fix the issue the victim had to go to Target and purchase five Apple gift cards containing $500 each and four Target gift cards containing $200 each for a total of $3,300. The victim used five credit cards to make the purchases. The suspect then collected the gift card information, and the funds were stolen. |
| 2025-00018473 |
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4/1/25 8:00 AM |
FRAUD |
RISING MIST WAY |
Victim stated on 04/01/2025 at approx. 8 a.m. she discovered what appeared to be a Microsoft pop-up window on her computer screen that prompted her to contact Microsoft regarding possible hacker activity. The victim called the number provided and a (Suspect) male answered advising the victim to type in certain commands and asking if pop-ups continued to appear on her screen. When the victim confirmed several pop-ups were showing, the suspect convinced the victim her bank account might have been compromised. The victim stated the suspect provided a “secure banking line” to contact in order to “prevent her money from being taken." Upon contacting the banking number provided, the suspect advised her to withdraw money from her bank and deposit the funds into Bitcoin ATMs. Immediately after the phone call, the victim went to her bank and withdrew $9,800 in cash. The victim drove around looking for the Bitcoin ATMs, but when she was unsuccessful the suspect advised her Lulu Lemon had a “government program” that can assist with her issue. The suspect began insisting on the urgency due to her being on watch by the “FDC for child pornography.” The victim stated the suspect stressed that she not contact anyone as her phone would then hack into their phone. Once the victim arrived at Lulu Lemon, she purchased two-thousand-dollar gift cards and contacted the suspect via phone. Victim was then told Sephora had the same “government program” and was advised her to purchase additional gift cards at this store. The victim stated while at the Sephora counter a sales associate asked if she was being scammed. It was at this point the victim began to realize she was the victim of fraud. The victim stated the Lulu Lemon gift cards had already been sent via text message to the suspect. The calculated total loss to the victim was $2,000. |
| 2025-00800110 |
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3/23/25 10:50 AM |
Fraud |
Sweet Pea Place |
An individual had his LinkedIn account hacked, and the (suspect) hacker created his own LinkedIn profile stating he was working at Cisco in San Jose, CA. On 2/9/25, the suspect connected with the victim on LinkedIn, and after connecting started to IM and converse on LinkedIn. Furthermore, the suspect contacted the victim on WhatsApp and continued to romance the victim. While communicating on WhatsApp the suspect taught the victim how to invest $1000 of their own money in the decentralized markets (funds were wire transferred from victim’s bank account to open a Coinbase account for Bitcoin, opened a Trust Wallet account, and then opened a zfsex.online account, which is a decentralized markets exchange trading platform). It was then realized the suspect account was fake and didn’t exist so all communication has stopped. |
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| Police Beat 7 |
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| 2025-00017854 |
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3/28/25 3:00 PM |
FRAUD |
SONATA WAY |
The victim said she received a phone call at approximately 2:58 p.m. The female caller left a voicemail telling the victim she needed to confirm her order with Amazon. The victim called the number back at 3:01 p.m. and spoke to a female. The female suspect (S1) pretended to be with Amazon and told the victim that a MacBook had been purchased on her account and was to be delivered to an address in New York. The victim told the female that she had not placed an order and did not have an address in New York. The suspect told the victim that there were multiple accounts listed in her name and she suspected fraud and was transferred to a different female (S2) who was supposedly with Social Security. This person told the victim that she was suspected of money laundering and having offshore accounts. The victim denied the accusation and was transferred to a male (S3) who was supposedly with the US Marshall’s Office. The victim told the male that she did not think this was real and did not believe him. The male told the victim to go onto the US Marshalls website and click “Contact Us.” There was a phone number where she could verify his identity. They disconnected and the male called her back from the phone number listed on the US Marshall’s website. After seeing the phone number and verifying it online, the victim believed it was a real call. The male told the victim that she needed to go to the store and purchase $1,500 in Visa gift cards and insisted she remain on the phone with him the whole time. The victim was afraid she was in trouble, so she followed the male’s directions. Ultimately, after approximately 1 hour and 20 minutes on the phone, the victim provided the male with the Visa gift card information. Later in the evening while discussing with her mother, the victim realized it had been a scam. |
| 2025-00018356 |
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3/31/25 2:37 PM |
FRAUD |
STAGHORN WAY |
A bank employee was alerted to a possible elder abuse circumstance regarding a 77-year-old client. The employee described the victim as embarrassed about the situation and was concerned that the scam was still going on and she was still a victim. Based off the bank’s calculations, the victim gave the scammer, approximately $41,526.22 primarily taken out in cash, checks, money transfers, and gift card purchases. The victim said she joined a “grief group” where she met the suspect (1) who massaged her over Skype. The victim said she and the suspect (1) would message each other over Skype. with messages from the suspect (1) referring to the victim as “babe” and telling her he loved her and making promises of making her life better. The victim said the last thing he had her do was put $10,000 in a box and wrap it in a towel and send it to a provided address in Oklahoma. The victim explained she found out the suspect (1) may have gotten arrested on his way to see her, and someone claiming to be his attorney suspect (2) reached out to her. Suspect (2) told the victim to send money to bail suspect (1) out of jail. The victim said throughout this experience, she estimated that she sent suspect (1) approximately $60,000 in cash and gift cards and was extremely hurt and embarrassed that she fell prey to a scam. The victim said the conversations with both suspects ended with her telling them she was all out of money. She explained that she had not’t heard from either party since. |
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