Suspicious Vehicle Overlook

Neighbors:

Please be aware of this incident today. This is a sad occurence on a busy Saturday in our neighborhood.

This evening around 6:00pm (Saturday, May 24) several residents noticed a tan-colored Caprice parked at the entrance to the boat storage area.

The vehicle didn't have a license plate on it and there was dark tint on the windows. Shortly after the vehicle was observed, 4301 Andrew James Drive (corner house across from the boat storage lot) was broken into.

The suspect(s) apparently kicked in the front door and entered the residence. Thankfully, no one was home. We believe the suspect(s) saw the owners leave and that's when they broke into the residence.

The Police are aware of this break in.

Patricia Vanek, Overlook Neighborhood Watch

Mountain Island Promenade

Mountain Island Residents:

We need to keep Mountain Island Neighborhoods a great place to live. We need to support one another & stop this developer from making the Promenade another overcrowded shopping center!

Please plan to attend this meeting support our area & fight this developer!

· This petition will be heard at the Charlotte City Council meeting on Monday May 19th, starting at 6:30 pm in the Char-Meck Government Center.

· Although traffic and overcrowded schools are primary issues to us, the Council will only be considering what would change as a result of this petition. This petition would add at least one, as yet unknown, big box retailer, a drive around drug store, a revised convenience store/gas station, reduce the buffer zone with Chastain Parc and change the housing mix.

· Overlook Residents are encouraged to attend the meeting and to contact city council members. We particularly need to focus on members; Lassiter, Fox, Barnes and Turner as they appear to be sympathetic to our concerns.

· We oppose the second big box and the lack of specificity regarding the housing to be built. Please see the attached position paper for more details as to the basis for our opposition.

Suspicious Vehicles Claiborne Woods

Attn: Mountain Island Neighbors

Subject: Be on the Look out

Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 16:58:13 -0400
From: claibornewatch@aol.com

Neighbors: Be on the look out for a 80's Burnt RED Caprice style car Tag# XSX-4491. If this car is parked any where in our neighborhood,call 911.

Man Driving car is an accomplice of the men who stole my car. The last digits of the Tag number were gotten on the day the car was stolen. The first letters were gotten today.

The man was driving down Mt Holly Huntersville Rd past our neighborhood today. Do not approach the car ! Call 911!

Thanks and look out for your Neighbor
Ryan BrownWatch Chairman

Patricia Vanek, ONW

Absentee Landlords Clean Up Your Mess

Mountain Island Neighborhoods United
Crime Watch Meeting
Thursday, April 24 at 7:30 PM
Cook’s Memorial Presbyterian Church

Join your neighbors at this important meeting with CMPD, City and County Officials as they discuss a crackdown on Absentee Landlords, cleaning up vacant properties and other crime-fighting efforts.

For more information, contact Mike Craft by email at board@catawbariverhoa.com.

Recent Arrests

From: CharMeck.org [mailto:webrequests@ci.charlotte.nc.us] Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 3:53 PMTo: cwilliams1018@carolina.rr.com

Subject: Recent Arrests

I just want to take a minute to let you know of several recent arrests. In the last two days North Division officers have arrested 8 people for residential break-ins. Most of these have been in the Brookshire Blvd. , Mt. Holly-Huntersville Rd. and Mt. Holly Rd. areas.

All of the arrests involved the North Division's Burglary Suppression team. This is a team of officers that work in unmarked cars and in plainclothes to address the residential burglary issues.

Please remember that the key to most of our arrest for residential break-ins is a citizen's phone call and good police work. We depend on you and your information. In addition, on Saturday, we arrested two subjects in Catawba River for trafficking cocaine.

We are now working to have the landlord evict the offenders.

Thanks, Capt. Andy Leonard

Please remember that this is this email box is a DO NOT REPLY email address. Should you have a question for me, please email me at gleonard@cmpd.org.

Be Careful Where You Put Your Garage Door Opener

Charlotte police are reporting a new breaking and entering technique. Thieves are breaking into cars with visible garage door openers, taking the opener and using the vehicle registration to identify the vehicle owner's address. They then break-in by going thru the garage into the home< CMPD reported in March at least 4 break-ins, mainly in the southern part of Charlotte using this method.  Moral of this story: keep your garage door opener out of plain view and put your registration in an inconspicuous location

Promenade Developer Meeting April 10th

The MIP developers (Ron Withrow and Kimberly Young) will be meeting with area residents at
7 pm at Holly Hunter Baptist Church on April 10, 2008.

Everyone is welcome to attend. Councilman James Mitchell is also expected to attend
The purpose of this meeting is to:

1. Go over the proposed changes to the Chastain Parc buffer zone
2. Discuss further the housing specs for the apartments and town-homes going into MIP
3. Defend their request for a second big box retailer which would basically destroy the "village retail" concept that was a part of the original 2006 re-zoning.
4. Overlook's position consistently requests that the housing be not entry level and that no second big box is acceptable as there can be no assurance whatsoever what retailer will go in there.
5. We are also working with CDOT to address the planned light at Overlook Mountain Drive and the safety of the intersection of Chastain Parc and MHH.
6. We are also talking to NCDOT to promote an earlier opening of the Oakdale intersection with I485.
7. Please plan to attend.

We need to come to this meeting & show our support for our MI neighborhoods accessability, traffic concerns & to keep this a wonderful place to live.

We want answers to what type of development is really going to be built!!!

Keeping you informed.

Patricia Vanek, Overlook

B & Es per Officer Dendy March 20th-26th

Week: 3-20-2008—3-26-2008


For this targeted period there were 8 break-ins in Response Area Two. Computers, televisions, cameras, video game systems, and jewelry continue to be the most commonly stolen items.

Trends of Note:

Response Area Two was hit hard in two of our communities. Catawba River Plantation and Northwood’s Forest accounted for 7 of the 8 B&Es!!!! This area will be the focus of the Burglary Suppression Team this week

Firearms:

None this week!

Suspect Vehicles:

On Dauphine Drive: (Off Mt. Holly Huntersville Rd) White Jeep Liberty or Dodge caravan. 3 B/M suspects.

On Pine Mountain Ln: (Northwood’s) Grey Nissan occupied by a B/M with dreds.

Response Area Two:

In Catawba River Plantation:

Pawley Drive
Seedling Ln
Aubreywood Drive (X2): 1st day an attempt, came back next day and broke into again. Residence has an alarm system.

Northwood’s:

Northwood’s Forest Drive: Suspect(s) broke window to get in. Resident did not fix the window properly so over the next two days the suspects returned and entered through the same point of entry.
Appleberry Ln:
Pine Mountain Rd:

Plan of Action:

In Response Area Two we will be checking the neighborhoods between Old Plank Rd, and Pleasant Grove Rd. We will then focus on Brookmere, Catawba River Plantation, and Northwoods.

Thank you Officer Dendy for your diligent work for our community.

Keeping you informed.

Patricia Vanek, Overlook Neighborhood Watch Coordinator

SUV 2000 Lexus RX 300 LICENSE # NRX 3159

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Police in Charlotte said three men may be responsible for a string of break-ins and stolen cars that started last week. Detectives are asking officers to watch for a silver Lexus SUV that was stolen during a break-in on Thursday off Randolph Road in Charlotte. That same SUV was used in a series of break-ins, including two off Providence Road in south Charlotte on Friday and one near Mountain Island Lake on Monday morning. In two of the break-ins, homeowners came home to find the thieves in their homes, but the men managed to get away. That SUV is a 2000 Lexus RX 300 with a license plate NRX 3159. If you see that car, police want you to call 911.

Boat Storage Break In At Mountain Island Harbor

On the weekend of March 15, 2008, someone cut through the fence protecting the boat storage area at Mountain Island Harbor and took an unknown amount of items from them. please be sure to keep valuable items stored someplace other than on stored boat and also keep them out of sight. We are now moving into the spring/summer period and thefts from boats, both stored and on the lake, normally increase at this time.