Comments on: Crime Report: B-Town Blogger’s House Burglarized

By: LaVonne M.

LaVonne M. — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:27:29 +0000

I live in the area of Glen Acres Country Club. There have been numerous break-ins of this type on my street. We have had two instances in January where an African-american youth has come up to our door. The first time I was home, but did not open the door since I had a weird feeling about it. The second time, my husband opened the main door, but left the storm door locked and closed. That kid said he needed some money for gas. My husband declined and the youth walked to another house. Later on, we learned that one of our neighbors down the street was robbed. This was all during the day around noon – 3:00pm.

Sounds like the same thing that you are all talking about. We didn’t see any cars, but it may be that these are the scouts and there is a car waiting to come help them when they find a target house?

We have become more aware, but still there have been two more burglaries on our street in the last week.

By: Lisa B.

Lisa B. — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:47:35 +0000

Thanks for the information. Between my husband and I we are home all of the time(and we live very close to Ms Arney.) We will definitely keep an eye out for these punks. We scrutinize every car that comes down our dead end street. I hope the cops found the time to question the kids in the green Accord with license plate 598-TNI. That’s a good lead right there.
BTW window peddlers take note, I’m not opening the door for you anymore!!

By: Diana Arney

Diana Arney — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 06:06:06 +0000

Shannon,

If you have any details regarding the break-in, please post or contact Scott at the blog directly to give to me. I had a witness that had spotted a black VW Jetta, and another reader had spotted a light green Honda Accord. If there are any consistencies with this and your neighbor’s break-in, please share. Chances are that these criminals will never be caught, however, I’ve been keeping my eyes and ears open for anything that might be worthy to submit to the Sheriff’s department. As for me, I refuse to be a victim without a fight.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:52:59 +0000

Just to give everyone a heads up there was another break today (2-5-10) off 122nd very close to Diana . Unfortunately I don’t have many details since I wasn’t the one that talked with my neighbor however I know they broke a window to get in. If I get any additional details that may be helpful I’ll pass them on.

Shannon

By: Diana

Diana — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:07:36 +0000

WC, thanks for sharing! This doesn’t sound like a coincidence. I live in the same area as you. Have you heard anything back from the police? I would think they would at least run the plates to figure out who they are, and maybe ask them some questions…I will definitely keep my eyes open for this car, and call the police!

Diana

By: WC

WC — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:37:41 +0000

My home was broken into by teenagers on Monday 2-1-10 at approxamently 1:35 pm.
I wasn’t home at the time but my dog was inside when they kicked open my back door. Nothing was stolen. I’m guessing they saw the dog and she gave chase and scared them away. My neighbor has survelliance cameras around his home and he was able to capture these punks on camera when they approached our home.

Both suspects are male, around 16-17 years old. One was tall, 5’9 and had on red or purple pants and a jacket with fur around the hood. He appears to be african american/somalian and the other suspect was shorter, 5’6 and had on white shoes,black sweats and a grey hoody sweatshirt and a baseball cap.
As I was waiting outside of my home for the cops to arrive, a suspicous vehicle full of teens slowly drove passed my home. I live on a dead end street,so they had to turn around and pass me again. I took a good look at all of them and wrote down the plates.

1 Samoan girl,frizzy hair was in the back seat, she appeared to be around 15-16. The other 4 were boys, a couple of asian and a black. They were driving a light green HONDA ACCORD License Plate 598-TNI. I gave this info to the cops.

The next day I had a feeling they would come back, so I parked my vehicle a couple of blocks away and waited inside my home for them to return. And sure enough they did!
I saw them drive down my dead end street and park ,facing towards my home. I told my Husband to call the cops but instead he went outside and they got scared and drove off!! So please, if you see this vehicle in your neighborhood, please watch them or call the cops! p.s. this happened near HOLY FAMILY CHURCH-WHITE CENTER

By: Douglas

Douglas — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:56:01 +0000

Pawn shops recoveries are problematical. First, a pawned item is treated as the property of the person hocking the item until the pawn term runs out (typically 90 days). That means you need to check pawn shops again 3 months after the crime. Also, pawnshops are not required to turn in suspect items to police unless the item description and serial number matches EXACTLY what is on the police file. Personal experience, I had a music instrument that the police report dropped the last digit from the serial number. I was fortunate to recover from pawnshop but the shop denied that they had it for three months until the pawn ticket expired. A potential buyer notified me based on an online stolen instrument listing that I posted (with full serial number), not from police or pawn shop efforts.

By: Keith

Keith — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:56:36 +0000

We had a similar break in (9th SW/158th) in September. Same M.O. (kicked in my side door, stole similar items) I wouldnt be surprised if its the same jerks. The sheriff also took a similar amount of time to respond which leads me to believe they really don’t care since there isn’t anything they can really do. I had serial numbers on all my electronics that were stolen but none has shown up in any pawn shops.

By: TcB

TcB — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:10:35 +0000

Not to advertise for someone here, but I found software for my Mac from evological.com where I can run my iSight as a security cam and log in from work. It detects movement and can be configured to ignore my Cats. It can record video as well. I’m gonna get this setup after I check out the software some more. I know you can get this stuff for a PC as well from somewhere. Let’s stop these guys cold!

By: Tcb

Tcb — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:20:49 +0000

I worry about this happening to me. I’m going to look at the webcam security camera tomorrow that i’ve been thinking about. You can have it tied into your modem and log into it from work so you’re monitoring your home all day if you work in that kind of environment.