• On April 5 between 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m., someone stole a .44-caliber revolver and a basketball from the trunk of an unlocked, silver 2003 Nissan Sentra parked outside Sears at Cary Towne Center mall.

• Employees at three Cary restaurants reported the thefts of News & Observer newspaper boxes from their businesses between 7 a.m. April 6 and 7 a.m. April 7. The boxes, each worth an estimated $600, were taken from Biscuitville and Burger King, both on N.C. 55, and from Bob Evans in the Crossroads shopping center along Walnut Street.

• Police in Cary are searching for a man who shot an employee of HoneyBaked Ham on Crossroads Boulevard on April 11. The victim, Richard Huether, 44, of Willow Springs, was taken to Wake Medical Center after being shot. Huether was reportedly outside closing the store when a man approached and tried to rob him. Huether was shot once after a struggle. The suspect is described as a thin white man between the ages of 16 and 34, wearing dark pants, a gray hoodie sweatshirt and a green or black hat. He was also wearing shoes that several witnesses described as multi-colored.

• More than $6,000 in construction materials and equipment was stolen between 6 p.m. April 5 and 7:30 a.m. April 7 from a storage trailer on the site of Alston Ridge Elementary. Included among the stolen property were rolls of copper wire valued at $3,000.

• Police have filed a juvenile petition against an 11-year-old Middle Creek Elementary student for possessing a weapon on school grounds. The fifth-grader reportedly brought a pocket knife to school April 7 and poked several classmates with it. None of the students were hurt and their parents declined to press charges.

• Five cars parked outside Regency Parkway Corporation between 3 and 5 p.m. April 8 were targeted by someone who stole GPS devices from all of the vehicles and a digital camera from one of them. The fifth victim reported to police hearing a car alarm in the parking lot and seeing a Hispanic male jump into a white van and flee the scene.

• A Cary man reported to police that someone had burglarized his storage unit at U Store It on West Chatham Street between 2 p.m. March 26 and 12:30 p.m. April 9. Missing from the storage unit was $4,370 worth of power and hand tools and six toolboxes, valued at a combined $600.

• A housekeeper at Motel 6 on Buck Jones Road was assaulted during an attempted strong arm robbery April 10 about 2:30 p.m. The woman told police she was making a bed in one of the motel rooms when a white male entered and demanded money. When she told the man she had no money, he reportedly grabbed her and began punching her in the face. The suspect then fled the scene. He is described as 30-40 years old, 5-foot-7 to 5-foot-9 inches tall and weighing between 175 and 200 pounds. The man was last seen wearing a gray shirt and khaki pants.

• Upon returning from a two-day vacation April 11, a Cary man discovered both his car and his home on Park Canyon Lane had been burglarized. The victim reported the theft of an iPod from his unlocked 2005 Ford F250. Police said the burglar used a garage door opener in the truck to gain entry into the house, where the suspect stole a laptop and alcoholic beverages.

• A Morrisville woman suspected a friend from South Walker Street in Cary in the theft of a laptop and iPod from her car between noon April 9 and noon April 10. The victim told police she had allowed her friend to use her car while she was in the hospital.