March 09, 2010
VEHICLE BURGLARIES

Sometime during the early morning hours of Sunday March 7, 2010, Monday March 08, 2010 and Tuesday March 9, 2010 a person(s) forcibly entered three cars that were parked in parking lots close to Dakota Wesleyan Campus and L.B. Williams School in Mitchell.   Windows were broken on the cars.  Items consisting of a Sony x-plode compact disc player car stereo with a detachable black and blue colored face plate, one Lightning Audio brand 12” speaker mounted in a particle board box, a Garmin brand GPS unit and an older model compact disc player were stolen.     The total value of stolen and damaged property is estimated at $1,800.   

In the most recent incident, a witness saw two suspects dressed in black clothes participate in the theft  and  leave the area in a newer model silver colored  Chevrolet Monte Carlo.

If you have information in relation to these incidents, or if you have information regarding suspicious activity in this area at this time, or information relating to any other crime, please call Crime Stoppers at 996-1700.   Remember that you do not have to identify yourself, and a CASH REWARD is available if it leads to the arrest of the subject or subjects involved. There are no caller ID’s attached to this phone line, so you will remain anonymous. To send a crime tip via text message, text “MITCS plus your message” to CRIMES (274637).  Upon receipt of a tipster’s first incoming message the system will auto-reply with a confirmation containing the tipster’s unique tip ID.  Anonymous two way communication can then occur between the tipster and Investigators.

Information received through CRIME STOPPERS  remains totally anonymous. Callers who provide information that leads to an arrest(s) will be given a CASH REWARD.

A minimum of $250. is paid for rewards on all “Crime of the Weeks” solved through Crime Stoppers.  Mitchell Area Crime Stoppers, Inc offers this reward.

To date 299 crimes have been solved through information from Crime Stoppers.

THE CRIME STOPPERS PHONE NUMBER IS ALSO IN THE TELEPHONE BOOK.