I sure feel for you and have heard of this all too close to home. My blind sister's house was broken into, police thought by two men that a neighbor spotted walking down her driveway in the night and called the police. They drove by but saw nothing wrong after the call, didn't check with my sister and just drove away. When my sister awoke the next morning, her small stereo unit that played her CD audio books(her way of reading a book) was lying across her lower pelvis/thigh region, with the stereo unit's stand overturned on the carpet, her dresser/nightstand drawers all open, her jewelry boxes all empty, roughly $10k in jewelry gone and the safe in another room unopened, though police said there was some kind of evidence it had been tampered with. Her gun, her only protection for an old blind woman whose husband was in the nursing home dying from Alzheimer's, was stolen also. She had been put on Ambien for sleep due to insomnia and it literally knocked her out those first few weeks she took it and had slept through the entire burglary - even them brazenly moving her little stereo unit and putting it ON her body while they looked in her bedside drawer! (The police said they likely hoped she would awaken by them doing that - probably intending to terrorize her.) Her screen door had the screen cut so they could access her door lock and the front door lock jimmied open. Her very expensive ring she normally wore all the time was being worn by her daughter during that time and she was not injured physically but mentally, she was a wreck for a year after that - scared of everything she heard at night. She was too scared to sleep for a while and wouldn't take her medicine for sleep again. She got very high blood pressure from the fear and no sleep.
Neighbors saw some teenage boys fairly frequently apparently stalking the area, seeming to be surveying it, particularly during the early afternoon and said it had been going on a while before and after the break-ins started. My sister, using her peripheral vision, would see three or four young teenage-looking boys walking about before and after that time, standing around laughing and looking around and then would walk on, stop and talk, look and proceed. Occasionally one would ride a bike along beside the walkers and they would separate at times, then reform down the block. Numerous break-ins and burglaries happened within a five block area around that time. The entire little area finally got all up in arms about it. Despite calling the police when they would spot one or all of the youngsters standing about or walking up beside a house or looking into a back yard or after a break-in, the police never caught them by the time they got around to rolling on the calls. The neighbors finally formed an informal sort of neighborhood watch as they could and followed every person that walked through the neighborhood that they didn't know for a while. Even the old ladies got involved at times and the younger residents at night and weekends. Sons would come over on their days off and walk the streets looking. It got tense, especially after hearing about my sister's break-in and the weird stereo thing. But these young men always ran off when approached by anyone. Police started parking on certain streets just every so often and sitting there videoing as a deterrent, especially after what happened to my sister. My sister said the police told her they posted a notice in the town paper about how this situation would not be tolerated. They frequented her house and one sergeant visited her from time to time to check on her and even called occasionally. She had his cell phone number.
The police advised her to get a dog first and foremost, cut down her big shrubs near the house that could hide a potential burglar, install outside lighting, install locks for her windows, put special kind of long dead-bolts on her doors, install dead-bolted storm doors, and a security system. And more than one told her to replace her gun ASAP but I had already given her mine until she got someone to get one for her. She did all of that and got her Tavi, a Westie-Schnauzer mix from the local shelter, who has turned out to be a great watchdog and the love of her life! Anyway, finally, the young men disappeared and the burglaries stopped. Thankfully apparently no people or dogs in the neighborhood were hurt by these kids and no one was physically injured, though guns, jewelry, TV's and phones, etc were taken. They sure did a lot of damage while they were around that winter.
I'm sure glad you all are okay so far and I hope you guys can fine a way to deal with these criminals before anything really bad happens. Look at this link!!! I hope this doesn't happen in your area!
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