Burglary

• Burglary On Decline: Alarms or Apathy?

11Not any more. While slightly up last year from 2008, the number of break-ins over the years has still dropped in Winnipeg, down 35 per cent from 199...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• October 26, 2010

• An investigation into the fundamental regularities of co-offending for violent and property crime classifications.

... robbery; property crimes include theft, burglary (residential, commercial, and other (8)), theft of...

• Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Vol. 54 Nbr. 1, January 2012

• Janitor Happy to Help Foil Virden Burglary

A second glass door still stood between Desjardins and a man who was dragging items such as air compressors and a motor from the entranceway to a waiting van.Desjardins said he banged on the door to frighten away the intruder but, remarkably, there was no response. Police found two air compressors, a Honda gas generator and various other tools and items inside the van which they learned was stolen from a Regina, Sask. rental company.

• Brandon Sun, The
• August 24, 2009

• Thieves Chased Off During Burglary

Brandon police are searching for a pair of men who were chased away during a residential break and enter early yesterday evening. Just prior to 7 p.m....

• Brandon Sun, The
• December 03, 2009

• Computer Stolen During Daylight Burglary

City police are looking for a suspect in connection with a brazen daylight burglary.Someone broke into a home on the 1500-block of 26th Street on Tues...

• Brandon Sun, The
• September 30, 2009

• Police On the Lookout for Suspect in Burglary

Police are looking for a burglar who swiped electronics from a west end home.The break-in on the 300-block of 27th Street was reported to police on Sa...

• Brandon Sun, The
• October 01, 2009

• Man Pleads Guilty to Series of Thefts

In the basement, police also found a garbage bag containing a number of pieces of "exotic" lingerie, stolen during a burglary at the Pleasure Chest Boutique on Jan 9.James Lindsay, 30, pleaded guilty to two counts of break, enter and theft yesterday, one for the Pleasure Chest incident and the other for the Beef and Barrel Restaurant.

• Brandon Sun, The
• February 11, 2010

• Suspects Caught in Park After Business Broken Into

Video surveillance helped nab two burglary suspects in Rideau Park early this morning, after police repsonded to a business' alarm in Brandon's east end.

• Brandon Sun, The
• July 01, 2010

• The Rise and Fall of Crime

Economists who have checked this view have discovered that it is often true but not always. They have found, for example, that the burglary rate goes up by two percentage points for every one-percentage-point increase in the unemployment rate. That sounds like a big change until you realize that if the unemployment rate rises from six per cent to eight per cent, the burglary rate will increase by four per cent. Because burglaries aren't measured all that accurately (some are never reported, and police vary in how they report the statistics), it's not certain that we even would notice so small an increase. So can the economy help explain fluctuations in crime? Sometimes yes, sometimes no. It would be difficult to link rising crime during the prosperous 1960s to economics. On the other ha...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• September 02, 2009

• Police Chiefs Charged in Celeb Surrogate Scheme

At an arraignment Friday, Martins Ferry Police Chief Barry Carpenter was charged with two counts of burglary, one count of receiving stolen property, one count of theft in office, one count of unauthorized use of property or services and one count of tampering with evidence. [T. Shawn Hervey] said that Carpenter is alleged to have entered the home of Michelle Ross and removed items from the home identifying Ross as the surrogate mother. Along with [Chad Dojack], Carpenter attempted to sell the items to photographers, Hervey said.

• Winnipeg Free Press
• October 13, 2009