Daylight Burglary Reported by West Side Homeowner

A resident of the 1400 block of North 123rd Street reported last Tuesday that his home had been broken into between 6:50 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

He told police he returned from work to find a window pane in his door shattered. He left the house for safety and to preserve evidence and called police, but then told them he thought his dog might have scared off anyone trying to enter.

Not so, he and officers discovered when they toured the home together. A box containing a large number of coins had been taken from his desk, and his wife's jewelry box had been rummaged through. She could not be sure if any jewelry had been stolen.

The coin box and some of the change that had been in it were found in the breezeway, and detectives collected it for evidence, lifting two latent fingerprints.

A neighbor reported seeing a silver SUV backed all the way into the victims' driveway earlier in the day but knew that the couple had a cleaning service and, thinking that was who it was, did not call police.

The homeowners, however, told police their service came on Mondays in an SUV matching that description, and that there would have been no reason for the service to return on Tuesday.