Update: This was posted on our Facebook page.
Make that three break-ins. Last night my wife and I returned home (15th ave ne & northgate) to find our kitchen window broken into and all our electronics stolen (plus some jewelry and a watch). We immediately reported it and the officers took prints (2:00am). But who knows what will happen… if anybody notices a Toshiba Thrive tablet or a Dell Studio 17 laptop on the market please let me know! 🙁
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We heard from two neighbors on Friday who reported burglaries.
Rachel wrote:
Hi Maple Leafers, we live near Sacajawea Elementary and our home was burglarized today. They broke open/kicked in a VERY strong door with a good solid deadbolt, and quickly took valuables out of the main floor rooms. It was clearly a quick grab job. Be careful out there with your homes, friends.
And another neighbor wrote under the header: “I hoped not to ever say this …
“I live on 80th. Looks like my house can be added to the list of ones that have been robbed recently. I have a big dog and everything.”
That one occurred just after lunch on Friday, near Roosevelt Way Northeast.
The police crime map shows right at 20 neighborhood burglaries since we last wrote about them in late March.
A guy is tent camping within sight of Roosevelt Way at Thornton Creek Park Six (Beaver Dam Natural Area). Should we have the cops get him to move along?
I am sorry he is down on his luck, but luck and effort are intertwined.
Have seen a scrofulous gray haired old bearded guy as well as a young, obviously drunk and dirty teen male with curly black hair traipsing through the hood in recent days.
We helped get that Key Bank robber busted, he had abandoned his bike on our street, we alerted the cops, they fingerprinted the bike, robber arrested a week later.
Introduce yourselves to your neighbors, get proactive, these crooks aren’t invisible.