August Security Update

Much has happened in Creekwood in August. The Creekwood Security Committee met at Bob Evans Restaurant on Friday Aug. 8th to discuss a plan for improving Security in Creekwood and the Neighborhood watch program. The request for additional Neighborhood Watch signs were approved at the Creekwood Master Board Meeting on Monday Aug. 26th.

The following article is from:
BradentonHerald.com

Greenbrook (a community on SR-70, slightly east of I-75) can legally put up surveillance cameras to digitally capture license plates of exiting vehicles, but the community must also post signs alerting motorists.
"Four cameras would capture license plates at the intersection of Greenbrook Boulevard and State Road 70, and four would do the same at Greenbrook Boulevard and Lorraine Road, said Ann Fischer, a member of the District 4 camera committee."

The Creekwood security committee has also been developing a plan for surveillance cameras at the recreation center. They are yet to present their findings to the Master Board.


The following article is from:
www.newsmanatee.com

This Week's 1st Stupid Criminal:
Young Man Burglarizes Two Cars
Across Street From His House;
Witness Knew, Saw Burglar

MANATEE COUNTY, Florida [NMT] -- It takes all kinds of people to make up this crazy planet. This kid wasn't too bright.

Dylan Reed Wallace

On Saturday, August 23, 2008, at about midnight, Dylan Reed Wallace, 18, of 7928 50th Place East, in the Creekwood subdivision in East Manatee County, went to a residence at 5025 79th Street East -- across the street from his home -- and began opening the doors on two vehicles.

However, the victim and a witness were standing on the north side of the house when they heard the door open on their Ford Explorer.

They walked toward the vehicle and saw Wallace look through the console of the Explorer, close the door, light a cigarette and walk to the other vehicle, a Jeep Cherokee, and open the driver's door.

The witness walked up to Wallace, who was inside the jeep and asked him what he was doing. Wallace turned around quickly and said he wasn't doing anything, the report said.

Then the witness and victim watched Wallace walk toward his home.

The witness and the victim, presumably boyfriend and girlfriend, went inside the home on 79th Street East and woke up another victim, presumably the girl's father.

About 10 minutes later, the sheriff's office was called.

The witness told Dep. Bryce Meade that he has lived in the Creekwood subdivision for 12 years and knows Wallace by face as Dylan Wallace, who lives at 7928 50th Place East.

One of the victims told Dep. Meade that $20 dollars had been taken from the Explorer's passenger seat.

Wallace was arrested and charged with two counts of Burglary to a Conveyance. He is being held at the Manatee County Jail on a $2,500 dollar bond for each count.