The local news just showed a mugshot of a guy arrested and charged with burglary and home invasion. He very likely could be one of the guys I saw running across my yard on Saturday.
They named the street the home he invaded was on - it's not far from me. It was said he burglarized another home but didn't name where, so he could be the guy. (Maybe not: the home invasion was over a week ago)
If it is him, and if he's guilty....well, I hope he's off the streets for a while. While burglary is a relatively minor crime (compared to something like a violent crime against a person), still: people should not be doing it. It hurts people emotionally, it's wrong, it's something that shouldn't happen.
My city is the 4th most dangerous (as far as crime stats go) in the state and that displeases me. Probably a lot of those crimes are petty theft (a college campus has a lot of small thefts; people get stuff stolen out of their cars) and drug violations, but still....there is the occasional violent crime or thing like a home invasion and I don't like that.
ETA: Apparently they caught the guy (who is now claiming he was high on pain pills at the time) because he vandalized a place with latex paint, and apparently the cops just followed his footprints.
Like my mom always says, the smart people don't become criminals. (Or at least they don't become the petty type of criminals, but rather the mastermind type who does stuff like cybertheft)
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At the very least, he's an oxygen thief. Burglars need to have the book thrown at them, and not a borrowed book, either.
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