Brad posted a comment about this yesterday.  Here’s the report from Decatur Police…

On 08/25/13 between 12:15 pm and 3:15 pm, there was a burglary in the 100 block of Superior Avenue. Entry was made by breaking a Plexiglas pane in the front door. A laptop, iPod, cell phone, purses, backpacks, jewelry boxes/chest and cash were stolen. Some of the items were recovered near the intersection of Scott Boulevard and Superior Avenue. A witness reported hearing a noise in the intersection around 2:00 pm and seeing a jewelry chest had fallen from an unknown vehicle.

Cathy writes in…

Today is the day that we hung all the collected art decks for SkaterAid’s silent art auction at the Brick Store Pub.  They will hang from this day up to the day of SkaterAid (9/29/13 2p-7p) at East Decatur Station.  We invite the community to come by and look at all of our beautiful, unique and cool art work.  Our website is www.skateraid.net and there is now a link for the on-line auction that starts the bidding!

One more pic…

You all may recall the movie A.C.O.D. (aka “Adult Children of Divorce”) filming in Decatur a while back.

I recall reading it had trouble gaining a distributor, but it’s now finally about to be released and if the trailer is any indication, there should be a good bit of Decatur featured as the backdrop.

h/t: Eater

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The Decatur Police Department sent out this note to residents, along with a list of recently REPORTED burglaries and robberies.  First the note…

…the police department wants to thank everyone for their continued vigilance in neighbors watching out for neighbors. There has been a drastic decrease in burglaries city-wide between May/June (33) and July/August (14 so far) while there has been an increase in calls from the community reporting suspicious persons, vehicles and activity. We know credit for this decrease does not belong to the officers alone. Thank you and keep looking out and keep calling.

We’re checking into the difference in robberies between August and July.  According to Sgt. Ross, there were 7 robberies in July and 3 so far this month.

Here are DPD’s descriptions of recently reported robberies…

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