Police: Burglary Trend Continues

Burglaries continue to be on the rise in Parkville through the first week of December, a trend which began last month, Baltimore County police said.

Community Outreach Officer Jason Goorevitz sent out an email Wednesday afternoon warning recipients that the burglary trend he previously announced is continuing.

"Since Nov. 1 there have been 12 residential burglaries targeting single homes in the Parkville Precinct area," the email said. In the Parkville area, the precinct's boundaries are I-695 to west, Belair Road to the east and the city line to the south.

In an email to Patch, Goorevitz said that three new burglaries had occurred since Sunday.

Gooretvitz said the crimes took place on:

• Dec. 4 between 12:30 and 9:37 p.m., in the 2400 block of Bradford Road
• Dec. 5 between 9 a.m. and 12:50 p.m., in the 3500 block of Branchcourt Road and
• Dec. 5 between 7:20 a.m. and 3 p.m., in the 2100 block of Taylor Avenue.

Items stolen include a television, a laptop computer, jewelry and a set of keys.

In 10 of those cases since the beginning of November, homes have been broken into when a rear glass sliding door was either broken or forced open, and eight of the burglaries occurred between 7:30 a.m. and 10:30 p.m.

Goorevitz urges the public to keep an eye out for suspicious people and to call 911 to report any suspected criminal activity.