Kings County Cruiser

Thieves target unlocked vehicles

Thieves entered more than 18 unlocked vehicles, primarily in Greenwood and Kingston, over the past week.

Reports from Greenwood indicate a purse and cell phone was taken from Catalina Avenue early Sept. 1. The purse was later found minus cash and ID.

The same thing occurred on Pine Street. Other thefts took place on Glasgow Avenue, Carol Street, Mayhew Drive, Dalmation Drive, and on Spring Garden Road, Baltzer Drive and Maplewood Drive in Kingston.

A table saw was taken out of the back of a truck on Commercial Street in Berwick and a truck in Port Williams was entered.

Two unlocked vehicles were ransacked on Starr’s Point Road in Port Williams, but the third one, which was locked, was untouched.

Two men were observed at 1:41 a.m. Sept 3 trying to enter a vehicle on Fowler Street in Wolfville. They were scared off.

Cst. Les Kakonyi says he re-iterates that car owners should lock their vehicles at night to prevent ransacking.



(CRUISER, Sept9)

There were 270 reports made to RCMP in Kings County between Aug. 29 and Sept. 4.

Early Aug. 29 a man filled a gas can at a Coldbrook station and left without paying.

At 2:26 a.m., an impaired driver was arrested on Aylesford Road. Police had observed him swerving.

Police were called to deal with an aggressive patron at a bar on Harbourside Drive in Wolfville. He was arrested.

A house on Maple Avenue in Waterville was egged. A saddle and three bridles were stolen out of an unlocked horse barn on Lockhart Mountain Road.

A thief took three lawn chairs and a weed eater from a back yard on Glasgow Avenue in Greenwood. Several stolen items were found later burned. A vehicle hit a tree on Aylesford Mountain and was on fire at 2:55 p.m.

Police are investigating an internal theft at a New Minas business.

Staff at a coffee shop in Coldbrook reported an impaired driver at 10:40 p.m. and he was arrested.

Three youth were reported in a vehicle in the ditch in Glenmont.

Early Aug. 30, a loud party was reported on Maple Drive in Coldbrook.

Ten young adults were causing a disturbance on Prospect and Gaspereau Avenue in Wolfville at 1:59 a.m.

There was a fight involving 40 people at a pool club in New Minas at 2 a.m., then a fight was reported at a lounge in Greenwood.

A farm market in Greenwich was broken into, but nothing taken. A stolen vehicle was found in the parking lot at Valley Regional Hospital.

Someone selling gladiolas near Aylesford had the money stolen from the end of the driveway. Someone tried to shop lift a bike from a shop in the Greenwood Mall.

Police in Wolfville are investigating a fraudulent rent cheque. A leaf blower was stolen from an unlocked garage in Weston.

Police have the license plate number of a driver who stole $75 worth of gas from a station in Coldbrook. A vehicle was on its roof near Highway 101 at Kingston at 5:47 p.m.

A driver received a 24-hour suspension near Murphy Lake after police suspected impairment.

A man at a fast food outlet on Central Avenue in Greenwood kicked the glass out of a door about 11:30 p.m.

A 42-year-old man was arrested by a foot patrol after video outside a Wolfville business showed a drunk pulling up flowers. Twenty to 30 youth were drinking and partying on Bay Street in Wolfville and later the entire block on Prospect Street was a party scene.

Youth were causing a disturbance at 2 a.m. on Aug. 31 on Lincoln Street in Kingston.

Acadia University security requested assistance with a drunk female on the ground near the arena at 3 a.m. Later a man, who was banned, turned up on campus with a squirt gun.

Police on patrol arrested a man who was passed out in New Minas at 3:21 a.m. Two women and 10 men tried to party outside a Coldbrook motel for over an hour. Police were called at 3:25 p.m.

A van was damaged overnight at the Harbourville wharf.

About 10 ATVs were causing an uproar at the gravel pit off Jones Road in New Minas.

An older man was ticketed for drinking beer in public on Harbourside Drive in Wolfville about 5:26 p.m.

A scooter driver swerved to avoid hitting a pedestrian on the road in Greenwood at 9:15 p.m. The driver fell and the pedestrian took off.

A DVD player and DVD collection was taken from a house on Prospect Street in New Minas and another house on the same street is minus two snow plows.

A house on Lincoln Street in Kingston was broken into.

A noise complaint came in from an apartment on Main Street in Kingston.

There was a case of Master Card fraud in Wolfville.

Electric fencing equipment was stolen from Bentley Road in South Berwick.

A house on Britney Drive in Greenwood was egged at 11:20 p.m. The miscreants were gone when police arrived.

Gas worth $75 was stolen in New Minas.

A shed in East Tremont was broken into and several items taken. Police advise securing doors and installing motion detectors.

A 20-year-old man was issued a ticket for noise due to an outdoor party on Linden Avenue in Wolfville.

Heavy equipment at a business in Harmony was vandalized on Sept. 2.

There was a loud party on Willow Avenue in Wolfville at 1:47 a.m.

After a copper theft in Coldbrook, a 31-year-old male suspect was arrested. A generator stored in a car tent was taken in Burlington.

A new computer was stolen out of the student newspaper office at the Acadia Student Union building.

A female shoplifter was arrested stealing makeup at Zellers in New Minas.

A vehicle was on fire in the Wal-Mart parking lot at 4:20 p.m. in New Minas.

There was an attempted break-in at a garage on Wolfville Ridge.

Fifteen to 20 young people were fighting near the Greenwood Mall at 6:57 p.m.

An ATV driver was injured on Ward Road in Millville. A glass door was shattered at a construction site in Somerset.

An impaired driver on a dirt bike hit a parked car at Sunken Lake and was arrested.

A loud party was reported on Bay Street in Wolfville.

Police went to the rescue of a young woman renting on Main Street in Wolfville after a bat entered her apartment after midnight Sept. 3. Cpl. Norman Manuel reported she was a little freaked out, but all was OK.

A rock went through a window early in the morning on Rafuse Road in Waterville.

A janitor fell off a ladder and was injured changing a light bulb at a school in Canning. A young couple slept overnight in a washroom at Lockhart/Ryan Park in New Minas.

There was a cow on the road in Tremont at 10 a.m.

Fuel was stolen at a house in Aylesford. Two windows were broken at the NSPC Hell’s Gate power office.

A female shoplifter was caught in New Minas.

A moneybox was stolen at a blueberry stand operating on the honour system in New Minas.

A vacant house was vandalized in Hall’s Harbour.

A window in a vehicle was smashed in Berwick overnight Sept. 4.

Seventeen domestic incidents occurred and eight mental health complaints. There were minor collisions in Greenwich, Garland, New Minas and Aylesford.

There were 14 false business alarms, nine false residential alarms and 15 false 911 calls.