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-Before
attempting entry, the parties involved opened the power boxes to the two A/C
units on the north side to turn off the electricity
-Entry
was achieved through the rear of the house by kicking in the garage door
(despite two locks)
-The
force was such that the rear door jamb (on the inside of the house) was actually
broken off
-Close-up
view of deadbolt and broken jamb area on garage door entry
-Once
in the garage, they kicked in the door between the garage and the kitchen (also
with two locks)
-As
with the first door, they broke the door jamb around the kitchen entryway,
knocking off the jamb's molding
-Detail
photo showing a shattered piece of the kitchen door jamb and deadbolt face plate
laying on the floor by the kitchen entryway door
-Whatever
object was used to hit the door actually bent-in the doorknob on the kitchen
entryway door
-The
force was sufficient enough to jar loose the deadbolt within the door's housing
(and BEND the deadbolt itself!)
-To
the immediate left, once entering the kitchen area from the garage, they went
into the utilityroom and caused this damage to get copper tubing
-I
speculate they kicked in the hole to the right, found no tubing there, then
opened the holes/damage to the sheetrock on the left to get tubing
-View
of the shattered remains of the sheetrock all over the utilityroom and pantry
floor
-In
their haste and with the force they used, they tore the sheetrock apart
(breaking the electrical outlet faceplate) in the utilityroom
-They
did not cut the tubing on the exterior of the house. You can see, here,
where they clipped it on the inside wall of the utilityroom
-They
made gaping holes to quickly pull out the copper tubing
-Oddly,
they didn't remove ALL the tubing in the house (I believe the neighbor
interrupted the robbery in progress). This piece dangles down from the
ceiling of the utilityroom's pantry closet. You can see where they ripped
through the ceiling (the light wouldn't come on after the robbery).
-They
made holes and damaged sheetrock in the pantry closet, as well
-Detail
of damaged sheetrock in pantry closet
-I
believe this was done in a hurry, as evidenced by them simply knocking off
shelving in the pantry closet (and several other signs in the house)
-Angle
showing where they knocked off shelving and took items on the shelving before
exiting
-Holes
they made in the sheetrock of the utilityroom's pantry closet
-Mess
on the pantry closet floor following the break-in
-The
neighbor saw them handing things out of the garage (they had pulled the release
on the garage door, probably so they could close it from the outside when
leaving). They ransacked all sorts of things in the garage before leaving,
such as taking all the hardware stored in this cabinet (found in this
manner...with all the bins pulled open)
-They
yanked open this computer cabinet, pulled out all the boxes inside of it, and
just left the mess on the garage floor
-View
of some of the mess left on the utilityroom floor
-Again,
oddly, they stole every vacuum in the house, including the little mini-vac on
the utilityroom wall
-They
yanked down the ladder to the attic, somehow breaking it so it can't be pushed
back up. It was left, like this, with it just hanging down in the garage.
-This
mysterious button was on the kitchen floor. We don't know if it is from
clothing they took or came from one of their own outfits.
-They
ransacked belongings on the shelf in the master bedroom closet, taking some
items, and entered another part of the attic through the door they left open.
-They
had to go upstairs to try to remove the copper tubing from the upstairs unit.
You can see they put aside the bleach (used to keep the drainage pipes clean),
apparently used a crowbar to pull off the return duct vent cover (bending it in
the process and poking a hole in the wall), and accessed the tubing in this
manner.
-Detail
view shows the bent cover for the return
-On
the upstairs unit, they pulled out both drainage systems (breaking one from the
drain pan), yanked out wires, etc.
-Why
in the world they broke off the drainage systems I don't know. As you can
see, the copper tubing was cut ABOVE the PVC pipes!
-The
damage they caused left liquid stains
-They
cut or simply yanked out wires (such as the low voltage wire that is used for
the regulator, wires to the humidifier, etc.)
-This
picture shows there was more than one person working at a time in one room.
The cowboy hat you see, here, is one of two that was in the bedroom I was in to
take this photo (in a closet in the corner). They took one hat and left
this "toy" one. They also stole a 180-piece home tool set from that
closet. The Filtrete filter and bleach were both taken out of the A/C
closet (you can see the cover they yanked off the return air area), but someone
opened the closet door by the hat and stole the Oreck XL vacuum in the closet.
Also, the master bedroom closet (down the hallway and around a corner beyond the
railing seen in this photo) was ransacked.