Crime & Safety
Update: Knife, Icepick Used in Wednesday Carjacking
Today's police log features a frightening incident that occurred Wednesday night.
Dixon Police officers are looking for three individuals who carjacked a Dixon resident using a knife and an ice pick.
The incident happened in a normally quiet residential neighborhood, on the 700 block of West Creekside Circle at 8:55 p.m., Dixon Police Sgt. Loren Ellefson said.
A Dixon man was entering his pickup truck when three men approached him Ellefson said.
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“One guy tried to ask him for directions and the other guy jumped into the passenger side of his truck,” Ellefson said.
The men were armed – one with a knife, the other with an ice pick – Ellefson said.
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“He struggled with them and got away,” he said. “He got scratched a little bit but managed to get away.”
Police believe there was a third suspect involved in the crime, but the two men who did the carjacking were described as Hispanic males, both wearing hooded sweatshirts.
The vehicle that was stolen is described as a green Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck with a gray camper shell (the shell is reported to have some brown spots on it).
Anyone with information about this crime is asked to contact police at (707) 678-7070.
Take a look at the rest of the police log:
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
0552 Area check 7700 block Pitt School Rd.
0846 Suspicious person 900 block Regina Way
0915 Abandoned vehicle 100 block East B St.
1139 Follow up investigation 1400 block Reed Dr.
1309 Follow up investigation 600 block Cypress St.
1313 Suspicious circumstance at DPD
1354 Suspicious vehicle 900 block Rehrmann Dr.
1413 Follow up investigation at DPD
1537 Follow up investigation 1400 block Reed Dr.
1603 Intoxicated subject 1100 block Stratford Ave.
1606 Trespassing 400 block East A St.
1617 Juvenile problem 1100 block Business Park Dr.
1636 Follow up investigation 400 block North Jackson St.
1644 Citizen assist by telephone
1954 Suspicious circumstance 400 block Market Ln.
2055 Carjacking 700 block West Creekside Cir. Two subjects one armed with a knife the other with an ice pick threatened victim and stole his vehicle.
2112 Trespassing 1100 block Afton Way
2148 Vicious dog 900 block North Lincoln St.
2203 Follow up at DPD
2324 Fight call 300 block West Walnut St.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
0350 Area check 7700 block Pitt School Rd.
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