ONE-MAN CRIME WAVE
May 12/13: Lewis tried to break into a car at a Napier house.
May 14: He followed a woman and shouted at her.
May 31: He prowled around a house in Greenhithe, Auckland “peering into windows” until he activated a motion sensor alarm and alerted the occupant. He then crept around the property next door until security lights turned on and scared him off.
June 15/16 : Lewis entered a house in Orewa ¯ where a woman and her two children were sleeping. He stole her handbag.
June 16: He used the victim’s bank card to transfer $180 on to her bus pass at the Albany bus station. He used the pass to travel around Auckland.
July 6 : He entered a property in Torbay and tried to open the doors of three cars in the driveway.
July 18: He tried to enter a house in Mairangi Bay where a woman lived alone. Her security camera feed went to her son alerting him to the intruder and he called the woman and warned her. She called the police as she turned on all the lights and “stomped around”, causing Lewis to flee.
July 19: Lewis broke into two cars parked up a driveway at a Browns Bay house. He stole a wallet from the first car and a purse, makeup bag and MacBook Pro laptop from the second. He shone a torch into a sleepout on the property and saw someone sleeping in there, so left.
July 19: Soon after he stole $2000 cash and two Countdown gift cards from a car at a nearby house. He approached a second vehicle but spotted a CCTV camera and left.
July 26: Lewis walked up to the front door of a Mairangi Bay property with an orange object in his hand. He noticed a CCTV camera and walked off.
July 26: A few hours later he broke into a car parked at a Murrays Bay house, taking a packet of chocolates which he put in the mailbox: assumedly to get on his way out. He entered the house through an unlocked door and stole a handbag as the occupant and her children slept. The bag was designer: a Christian Dior containing a matching wallet, over $1000 cash, various bankcards and a Samsung headset.
July 26 : Lewis went back to the bus station at Albany and used the woman’s eftpos card to put $300 on her bus pass which he again used to travel around Auckland.
August 7: He rifled through a car parked at a Torbay address but left, taking nothing of value.
August 7: He went to a second property in Torbay and walked around the house, appearing to look for an easy point of entry. A security light activated and he left.
August 13: Lewis was at a grocery store on Waiheke Island. He forced open the roller doors and let himself in, using a tool to prise open cash registers and empty them. He took approximately $2000.
August 13: He then went to another house in Torbay and looked through a car but could not find anything of value to steal.
August 16: He walked around a Torbay house shining a torch into the window of the property before trying to open a ranch slider. No break in.