**** UPDATED: Stolen puppy
*** (12/1/090: The puppy, we're told, has been found and returned to his owner.
From our colleague Larry Altman over at the Crimes and Courts blog:
An Inglewood woman is pleading for someone to help her find her dog, which she reported stolen Sunday from her car in a shopping center parking lot.
The dog was in her car parked outside the Superior market at Crenshaw Boulevard and Imperial Highway. Someone broke into it, she said.
Her dog is a Maltese named "Prince."
"My entire family is heartbroken over this," Sanford said in an e-mail sent to the media. "My daughter can't stop crying and she can't sleep at night. We love our dog and we won't stop until we get him back."
The dog is a white male (not neutered) Maltese, about 7 pounds.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Inglewood Police Department at 310-412-5210.
Be sure to also check out our earlier post today on a lost cat named Flashdance in the Torrance area.
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Yay! He's been found and returned to his owner!
http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-stolen-maltese,0,6228410.story
ktla.com has more details on their website:
http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-stolen-maltese,0,6228410.story?track=rss
Police say a security guard spotted the man enter the car on the driver's side and then walk around to the passenger side so he could grab the dog more easily. As the man jumped into his own car and took off, police say the security guard wrote down the vehicle's license plate number. The car is described as a black or dark blue Ford Expedition. The security guard said the plate was easy to remember. It read MR BJ 1.
The suspect is described as African American, about 60 years old, and about 6'2". "