Hello LMJ Neighborhood Watch Members,
We will hold our first meeting of the LMJ Neighborhood Watch Camera Committee on Thursday July 14 at our Isle of Pines Neighborhood Park at 6:30pm. Any of our members are welcome to participate! We already have several people that work for security companies that may be able to give us guidance – and we will also have someone from the Sherriff’s Office as well. All donations going forward will go towards the cameras – so hopefully by mid July we will start to have an idea of what we can spend.
Suspicious Van in Live Oak
In Live Oak there was a suspicious white van late night Wed (12:30 am Thursday.) It was an older model extended panel van (no side windows) possibly a Chevy. Two different neighbors saw it driving slowly around – and it followed a car on Mastwood with a teenage girl in the passenger side. They turned on Rambling Oak and then onto Smokerise and the van followed them and went to the end of the street and turned around. She was out with a young man that walked her to her door – and they believe when the person in the van saw that she was with a man – the van drove off – but turned to drive farther into the neighborhood. No one was able to get a tag # - but please be on the lookout. There is another white van that drives in our neighborhoods late Wed night to deliver the Osceola Gazette, but we confirmed that van is a conversion travel van with windows, and it has stripes running along the sides under the windows.
Suspicious car in Roberts Island
Monday night there was a low riding Silver El Camino with dark tinted windows with a very loud throaty muffler driving by very slowly in Roberts Island. Just another vehicle we need to watch out for.
Please try to get tag numbers – but ONLY if you can do it safely!
Suzanne Arnold
LMJ NW Coordinator
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Friday, June 17, 2011
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Strange Cars, Cameras, and Swimming Hole Warnings
Hello LMJ Neighborhood Watch Residents,
3 important items
1 - Safety: Moss Park has shut down their swimming area this past week due to high bacteria levels in Lake Mary Jane. The water level is low and very hot in shallow areas. Please consider this risk before swimming in our lake. If you choose to swim, you may want to use a nose plug and waterproof band aids for cuts.
2 - CAMERA Committee!
We did it! Through your generous donations – we have now raised enough money to cover the costs of all the window decals and block captains hats! THANK YOU!! I have opened up a bank account for additional funds that we are receiving and we now have $49 with more coming in! The next things residents asked for is cameras, so we are going to create a camera committee to look into purchasing cameras. I will be sending out a separate message once we pick out a couple of dates for meetings.
3 - Strange Cars:
Last week we reported on an older model red Volvo that was driving around and around Roberts Island at 3:30 am (the homes near Story’s Ford and the llamas.) We found out that license plate that was on the Volvo actually belongs to a white 2007 Mitsubishi Utility truck from the Kissimmee area.
We also had another suspicious car driving around this week, tag was valid – but from city of Orlando area. One of our block captains followed them and sent me this info:
On Monday the 13th around 11am, a Gray infinity w/right brake light out & left drivers side mirror broken out was going up & down on LMJ in the IOP area. I got in my car to follow, but he speed out of here, slowed down at TM ranch pulled over & turned around, so I turned around & he stopped fast , turned around & headed out. He was a younger black male, I got his plate # V48 1VQ as I followed him out, he was driving slow at 1st , then speed up again going over 60mph. I followed him on Moss PK rd, he turned left on to Narcoossee.
PLEASE USE EXTREME CAUTION if you decide to follow a suspicious car to get a tag and description. DO NOT TRY TO STOP THESE CARS and PLEASE DO NOT APPROACH strangers in the dark – especially by yourself!! It’s not worth your life!
We now have 41 amazing block captains and we are looking for one more on LMJ Rd as you are heading into the IOP. If you can help with this area – please let me know.
Remember – get your LMJ decal on the upper right rear window of your car! If you still need one – let me know.
Thanks for keeping your eyes open,
Suzanne Arnold
LMJ Neighborhood Watch Coordinator
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