Police log for April 26

-A UNC Hospitals employee reported being the victim of strong armed robbery at 12:05 a.m. Monday, Chapel Hill police reports state.

Reports state that a woman returned to her parked car at the Harris Teeter in the Chapel Hill North complex at 1800 Airport Road to unload her groceries when a man in the car next to her reached out of the window, poked her in the side and demanded that she give him her wallet.

Reports state that the victim threw the wallet, which contained her driver’s license and credit cards, at the man and ran back into the store.

According to reports, the robber was described as being in his 30s and having a stocky build.

 

-The Eckerd drug store at 602 Jones Ferry Road reported a larceny at 3:40 p.m. Saturday, Carrboro police reports state.

According to reports, a store employee observed a man leaving a clear plastic bag at the front of the store when he entered.

Reports state that after several minutes, the employee saw the man put items in the bag and run out of the store.

According to reports, the employee saw a Con-Air hair dryer, valued at $16, in the bag and believes that the subject took curling irons as well.

Reports state that the man was last seen running behind Food Lion. A police search of the area was not able to locate him.

 

-A UNC School of Dentistry employee reported a breaking and entering and larceny from her residence on Cobb Street at 9:40 p.m. Saturday, Carrboro police reports state.

According to reports, someone threw a brick through a kitchen window to break into the home.

Once in the residence, the perpetrator stole an Apex DVD player valued at $50, a Fila coat valued at $50, a Phat Farm coat valued at $70 and a Sony CD player valued at $25, reports state.

Police fingerprints of the area were entered into evidence, but no information on a suspect was obtained.

 

-A local teenager reported that her vehicle faced a breaking and entering and larceny on Columbia Street at noon Sunday, Chapel Hill police reports state.

Reports state that someone entered through an unlocked passenger-side door and stole a Vera Bradley hanging makeup bag valued at $100, a Vera Bradley shoulder tote valued at $125, a Kodak digital camera valued at $300, $200 worth of makeup and $800 worth of clothes.

 

-A Durham woman reported that she was the victim of larceny at 5:15 p.m. Sunday, Chapel Hill police reports state.

According to reports, the victim was shopping at Whole Foods Market at 81 S. Elliot Road when someone stole her purse out of her unattended shopping cart.

Reports state that the purse, with contents that were valued at $100, contained her driver’s license and several credit cards.

 

-Chapel Hill police responded to a weapons discharge complaint at 5 p.m. Sunday in Fraternity Court, police reports state.

According to reports, police received a shots fired call near Granville Towers that said a loud discharge was heard near the court, at 106 S. Columbia St.

When police arrived on the scene, they found a subject holding a PVC pipe used for shooting potatoes.

Police confiscated the device, more commonly known as a “spud gun.”