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Crime statistics released

Auto theft -20.0%

Robbery -14.3%

Violent crime -1.1%

Property crimes +15.8%

In reviewing Fallbrook area crime statistics for the first seven months of 2010, Lt. Mike Barnett, the newly assigned commander of the Fallbrook Sheriff’s substation, said he is pleased to report violent crime, robbery, and auto theft numbers are down compared to 2009. While property crimes have increased over 15 percent for the same time period, Barnett said he expects that a number of arrests his deputies have made in the last two weeks will improve those numbers for the remainder of the year.

“Property crimes have d...

 

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