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UPDATED Police Log 12-28: Thieves Ripoff Benicia Businesses

Copper wire stolen, vehicles broken into.

UPDATED. 2:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 30:

Here is the rest of the Dec. 28 police log.

1:27 p.m. Police took a report of fraud attempt with an international lotto scam on East H Street. 

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3:00 p.m. A resident of Steven Circle reported a pair of unfamiliar vehicles in their neighboorhood. The cars were registered to a Benicia resident and legally parked. The caller said she would call back if she saw the vehicles again.

6:26 p.m. Dispatch took a call of a vehicle in the driveway of a vacant house on Buena Vista Drive. It turned out the vehicle belonged to a neighbor.

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10:09 p.m. Police took an incident report of a residence's window being broken on Winston Court. The caller thought he knew who did it but no information on the suspect was documented.

Published yesterday afternoon:

Here are the highlights from the Dec. 28 police log. These are the only calls that currently appear on the Benicia Police daily activity log.

6:12 a.m.  An alarm malfunctioned at a business on Southampton Road.

8:22 a.m.  Police took a report of a piece a metal that had apparently been thrown through the front windshield of a vehicle on East Fifth Street. 

8:38 p.m. An officer removed cable wires from the middle of West J Street.

11:07 a.m. Police issued a case number for a report of counterfeit money being used at a business on Columbus Parkway.

12:01 p.m. Police took a report at a business on West Channel Road of eight vehicles being broken into.  

12:16 p.m. Police took another incident report at a business on West Channel Road. Copper wire had been taken from inside the business.  

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