Crime & Safety

High Crime Rate at Lake Murray Village? Police Say No

Four robberies at the shopping center this spring stand out, but police say they see more crime at other centers.

Written By Jeremy Ogul, La Mesa Courier

In April they robbed the taco shop. Two weeks later someone robbed a man at the ATM. A couple weeks after that, two people snatched a woman’s purse in the Vons parking lot. A little over a month later, someone robbed the Wells Fargo branch.

A string of crimes over the past several months at Lake Murray Village shopping center has shoppers and business owners wondering what draws criminals to the area at the intersection of Lake Murray Boulevard and Baltimore Drive.

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But La Mesa police say they do not see an emerging pattern of crime there. Statistics show that 17 police reports have been taken at that area in the past year, and only three of them were arrests.

Read the rest of this crime analysis in the La Mesa Courier, a La Mesa-Mount Helix Patch media partner.

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