At three in the morning on Feb. 16, a resident of the 1200 block of S. Federal St. said she was asleep in her bedroom when a loud noise woke her up. She sat and looked around, but not seeing anything unusual went back to sleep.

Once the victim got up in the morning, though, she noticed a strange odor on the 1st floor and discovered the front window broken. She called the police, and investigators found a possible Molotov cocktail, in a glass jar, that had broken through the outer windowpane. There was no other physical damage to the building.

An employee at a South Loop athletic club was twice threatened with serious violence over the phone.

On the afternoon of Feb. 15 someone called the victim and then mentioned both the victim’s name and where his car was parked. The offender then threatened to blow the victim’s car up. The victim disregarded the threat and did not call the police. He left work without incident.

But the next morning, on Feb. 16, the victim got a second threatening call from the same voice. “I see you left work at eight last night,” the offender said. “I thought you worked until nine. What time you working ’til tonight?” The victim said he was working until nine. The offender then threatened to kill him when he got off work, after which the victim called the police.

The victim thinks a disgruntled former employee or one of the erstwhile employee’s family members may be calling, but the police have yet to identify a suspect.

Two separate burglaries took place Feb. 14 on the 1600 block of South Indiana Avenue.

In one incident, the victim left for work around 7:45 in the morning and returned home at 6:40 in the evening to find her front door pried open. She immediately called the police. When officers entered the apartment, the victim observed that several drawers had been opened and items stolen. These included credit cards, and more than $1,000 in jewelry including several gold necklaces, earrings and bracelets.

In a separate break-in, a victim left her apartment on Feb. 11 and returned home Feb. 14 to find pry marks on her deadbolt. She then found her jewelry boxes and dresser drawers ransacked and an estimated $300 in jewelry missing. A CD player was also taken, as well as two watches with a total value of about $1,000.

A laptop computer taken from a dorm room last week at University Center, located at 525 S. South St., remains missing.

The victim told police that someone took the computer, with an estimated value of $1,200, sometime during the day of Feb 16. The victim’s roommate had a visitor in the room during the day, but neither the roommate nor the victim observed this visitor take the computer, and there are currently no identified suspects.