Police seek man, woman suspected of scam

A local shop owner who gave two people a ride to the Greyhound bus station Wednesday afternoon discovered after he dropped them off that his wallet was missing, according to a report from the Bowling Green Police Department.

It contained $700 in cash, as well as several bank cards.

Officers went to the Greyhound station, but the two people, a man and a woman, had already left, according to the report. They bought tickets to Arizona, but missed the bus, according to the report. Their luggage, which contained a computer, was left behind.

City police contacted the sheriff’s department in case they had been investigating burglaries involving people of the same description.

Officers were told a home in the 400 block of Kelly Road had been burglarized. The victim said she was acquainted with the woman, and had driven the woman and man, whom she didn’t know, to Scottsville over the weekend, and again to a McDonald’s restaurant on U.S. 31-W By-Pass on Wednesday afternoon. She told police she believed the two stole some jewelry and a computer from her, according to the report.

Arrest – Another Bowling Green woman was arrested this week and charged with prostitution, the fourth such arrest in recent weeks by Bowling Green police.

An undercover officer said he was approached by a woman Thursday while in the area of Vine and Woodford streets. They drove to Hobson Grove Park to negotiate a price. The woman asked the officer how much money he had, according to the report, after which he arrested her.

The woman, 29-year-old April Leigh Burke, is lodged in Warren County Regional Jail in lieu of $5,000 cash bond.

Burglary – Between 2:30 p.m. Wednesday and 1 a.m. Thursday, someone entered a house in the 1700 block of Old Louisville Road and stole several items, according to a city police report.

An Apex DVD player, 20 music CDs and an Aiwa six-disc CD player were reported missing, according to the report. The items are valued at $1,550.

Theft – Sometime Thursday, someone stole 33 large pieces of steel from BGMU’s water plant at 16 Chestnut St., according to a city police report.

The steel is valued at $1,408.

Theft – A Bowling green man told city police that more than $600 in stereo equipment and music was taken from his locked car Thursday while parked in the 100 block of Hillridge Court.

Theft – Several collectible sports cards and other items, valued at more than $1,000, were taken between July 28 and Aug. 1 from display cases at Off Broadway Store. City police questioned a man who had previously been arrested on a stolen credit card case from the same store. The man denied taking the items, the report said.