Crime & Safety
Thieves in St. Charles Make Off With $8,640 in Patio Lights
Work crew replacing lights for a townhome association had left 15 boxes unattended while they began work in another area of a St. Charles neighborhood.
Thieves made off with 15 sealed boxes containing 90 patio lights awaiting installation on townhomes in the 3000 block of Heritage Street.
The combined value of the lights was $8,640, according to the police report.
The theft was reported at 11:11 a.m. Friday, April 26, 2013, by an employee of Frog Painting and Carpentry, 905 Banbury Court, Schaumburg, which had been hired by a townhome association to replace patio lights on homes in the neighborhood.
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The work crew arrived and set out the boxes in two locations — one in the parkway on the 3000 block of Heritage Street, and another group of boxes on the far south end of the neighborhood of townhomes, where the crew began working.
A company spokesman told police that at one point, two men in a white Chevrolet cargo van stopped to ask if the boxes were garbage to be scrapped, but the workers said no and the van drove away. But workers then went to check on the boxes on Heritage Street and discovered they were gone.
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