AUTO THEFT, LARCENY SOAR; SECOND QUARTER SAW OVERALL UPSWING IN CRIME.Byline: Patricia Farrell Aidem Daily News Staff Writer Auto theft and larceny larceny, in law, the unlawful taking and carrying away of the property of another, with intent to deprive the owner of its use or to appropriate it to the use of the perpetrator or of someone else. surged in the second quarter of 1998, contributing to a 1.67 percent increase in crime in the nation's fourth-safest city. Valleywide, crime increased 3.8 percent, and like the city, the outlying communities including Stevenson Ranch Stevenson Ranch, California (in the 91381 ZIP Code) is a Los Angeles County, USA, unincorporated community west of Santa Clarita a few miles south of Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park. The Stevenson Ranch fountain was redone in 2007. and Castaic saw increases in larceny and auto thefts, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. statistics released Friday by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department This article is about the Los Angeles County Sherriff's Department, not to be confused with the smaller Los Angeles County Police The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) is a local law enforcement agency that serves Los Angeles County, California. . More serious crimes fell - robberies and burglaries among them. The homicide rate dropped from four valleywide in the first quarter to three from April through June. Third-quarter figures will reflect the deaths of four young sisters found dead July 1 in their Valencia home, one day after the three-month period ended. Most of the larcenies involved shoplifting Ask a Lawyer Question Country: United States of America State: Florida caught shoplifting at sears 12/05/05, first time, 20yearsold, have no criminal record. and burglaries from cars, including a recent spate of air-bag thefts from vehicles, said Capt. Don Rodriguez, commander of the Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672. sheriff's station. The thefts from stores were concentrated for the most part in the retail areas along Valencia Boulevard, Magic Mountain Parkway and San Fernando Road San Fernando Road is a major street in the city and county of Los Angeles. It starts off in Castaic as The Old Road, passing through Santa Clarita and the Newhall Pass, where upon its intersection with Sierra Highway near the junction of the Golden State (I-5) and the , including the Valencia Town Center, Rodriguez said. ``With all those businesses in there, petty theft is one of the things we're looking at,'' he said. ``We're going to see if we can come up with some type of program to address that and other larcenies like burglaries from vehicles.'' Auto thefts also increased valleywide, and the station's crime analyst will study the cases to see if any links can be drawn, Rodriguez said. Burglary declined in the second quarter within city limits, after a rocky first quarter blamed on a rash of residential break-ins. But the problem appeared to shift outside city limits where the burglary rate more than doubled from 32 in the first quarter of 1997 to 67 in the same period this year. The Santa Clarita Valley station covers a 650-square-mile area with the densely populated 50-square-mile core comprising the city. The jurisdiction stretches south to the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. city limits, west to the Ventura County line, north to the Kern County line and east toward Agua Dulce Agua Dulce is Spanish for "sweet water". It also refers to various locations: In Mexico:
Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, has been named the fourth-safest city of 100,000 or more in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. by the FBI, which ranks cities by their raw number of crimes, not crime rates based on population. Recent annexations boosted Santa Clarita's population by 10,000 to nearly 150,000. The neighborhoods annexed were low-crime, newer communities in Valencia and Saugus with little retail business. Rodriguez said the city is determined to drop below safe cities Thousand Oaks, Simi Valley and Amherst Town, N.Y., to win the No. 1 safest-city title. He said the effort is a simple one if residents take precautions to cut crime. ``People leave valuable items in their cars - those lead to crimes of opportunity,'' he said. ``Or they close their garage doors but leave the side door open, and the door from their garage to their house is unlocked. A burglar can walk right in.'' Rodriguez suggested locking the hoods on cars to make it difficult for would-be thieves to disconnect batteries. ``They do that to eliminate the risk of activating an air bag when they're stealing it,'' he said. He also suggested hiding valuables such as cell phones, and lowering the car antenna to avoid drawing attention to the car. ``There are a lot of things you can do to protect your house or your car by just taking simple precautions.'' CRIME FIGURES City of Santa Clarita Year HomicideRape Robbery Assault Burglary Larceny 1997 1 6 15 116 158 340 1998 0 6 13 104 143 368 Diff. -1 0 -2 -12 -15 +28 % change -100 0 -13 -10 -9 8.2 Year Auto Theft Arson Total 1997 71 8 715 199888 5 727 Diff +17 -3 +12 % change 24 -38 1.67 Santa Clarita Valley: (x) Year Homicide Rape Robbery Assault Burglary Larceny 1997 4 8 21 166 190 419 1998 3 7 19 210 210 454 % change -25 -13 -10 -13 - 11 8 Year Auto Theft Arson Total 1997 105 13 926 1998 115 10962 % change 10 -23 3.8 (x) Includes the city, as well as outlying communities of Castaic and Stevenson Ranch. CAPTION(S): Chart CHART: CRIME FIGURES (see text) |
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