Crime & Safety

Tools Stolen From Contractor's Truck in Birmingham

The Birmingham Police Department investigated multiple larceny reports this week.

Officers with the Birmingham Police Department are investigating the theft of numerous tools and other equipment from a contractor's vehicle in the 600 block of Ruffner on Tuesday. 

The contractors told police several items were taken from their truck parked outside a job site at about 5:30 p.m. Sept. 10. The items included a black drill box containing an impact driver, a cordless drill, multiple drill bits, batteries and a charger, reports said. A six-gallon, rectangular gas can was also missing from the vehicle. 

A witness described a possible suspect who was at the scene as a white man in his late 30s or early 40s. He wore a dark blue Home Depot polo shirt, a khaki fisherman hat and light colored shorts, reports said. He also reportedly had a Home Depot badge pinned to his shirt. 

Man helps himself to cash register

Officers are also investigating a larceny from Therma-Scan on Tuesday. Employees told police they found an unknown man behind the reception desk with the cash register open at about 4:30 p.m., reports said. There was no employee at the desk at the time.

However, an employee that reported the incident said he confronted the suspect and the man ran off with all of the cash inside the register. The amount taken was not disclosed in reports. 

The man is described as black, and in his mid-30s. He had short black hair and stood about 5-feet-10 or 5-feet-11 with a slender build, according to reports. He wore dark-colored pants, an untucked dark-colored shirt and had a Bluetooth in his ear. 

Police said he may have driven away in a gold-colored, older model four-door vehicle, possibly a Buick.

Anyone with information is asked to call the department at 248-530-1870.


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