A crushing extra innings loss — then a strange crime.
Like many Dallas residents, Jeffrey Hargrave had been swept up in Rangers fever as the team battled the St. Louis Cardinals in October’s World Series. After the crushing extra-innings defeat of Game 6, Hargrave went to bed that night feeling defeated himself. Then he awoke the next morning to find that someone had broken into his wife’s car, which was parked in front of his University Terrace home.
But this car break-in was a bit different.
“We came home during the eighth inning of the Rangers game,” he says. “We had been watching the game at someone’s house.”
Hargrave parked in the driveway and was in a rush to catch the rest of the game, but his wife remained in the car.
“She was checking email or something on her phone and I said, ‘I’m going in to watch the game,’ ” he says.
“Saturday morning I came out and saw something leaning against my wife’s car,” he says. “I took a closer look and saw that it was a pair of Bose speakers.”
A criminal also had rifled through the car, moving a GPS and shuffling through some business cards, but not taking anything. Hargrave believes both doors had accidentally been left unlocked when his wife came inside the night before. He says it was quite a surprise to find that someone had broken into his car, but perhaps even more surprising that the criminal took nothing and even left behind some of his loot.
“I think one of my neighbors got up early and just interrupted them,” he says.
Dallas Police Sgt. Keitric Jones of the Northeast Patrol Division says it may sound strange, but a thief accidentally leaving items behind after a crime is not that uncommon.
“The burglar was possibly scared away during the crime,” Ketric says, and “may have dropped the property unknowingly.”
