Home invasion

Early this morning at 2:45, I had an electrical issue and my garage didn?t close and I poorly didn?t make sure it was closed.
by pure fate a couple of assholes decided to get in my garage, get into all our vehicles, steal multiple things (Glock 26, 2 tan yeti 30 hoppers, crossbow, RC truck- Losi rock-Rey , spotting scope, my sons fishing backpack with all his gear and lures, my pellet gun, couple knives, the center console divider of my truck, and a pair of vortex diamondback binoculars).

I?ve already got the police report in, still in a bit of shock as our neighborhood has never had an issue but these fuckers decided to continue on and break into on of my neighbors cars, then open their garage and continue stealing.

i have cameras and video footage of them, all given to the sheriffs office, and will be digging in further with other cameras to hopefully get some more details.

if anyone has any advice on what else to provide to police or local pawn shops I?d appreciate it.

It's truly sickening what people do. The good news is it?s just stuff, all I really care about is my family is safe they didn?t try to come in the home. If they did we would have a much different outcome.

be careful out there, the quiet local semi-country place I grew up in is truly gone. This state needs some serious changing.

That's fukkin crazy. Glad everyone is safe. I believe I am familiar with your "neighborhood", last place I would have thought such a thing would happen.

If you're unarmed, you are a victim.

Glad you and yours are safe. Have you heard of DNA spray/gel? In a nutshell, synthetic DNA that's applied to things that might get stolen.

https://www.selectadna.us/

I recently had someone try to break into one of my houses I am working on. He did a lot of damage, but never got in. I have about 80 mugshot quality photos of him on two different nights trying to get in. The police knew who he was and picked him up within a week or two. He was charged with two felonies. Now we are being revictimized by the judicial system. The DA wants to accept a plea for a misdemeanor. The police have dealt with this guy a lot, he is not a good person by a long shot.

I hope they find your belongings, but don’t count on the court to give out justice.

I can't even imagine the anger I'd feel...

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Originally Posted by sniper7

Early this morning at 2:45, I had an electrical issue and my garage didn?t close and I poorly didn?t make sure it was closed.
by pure fate a couple of assholes decided to get in my garage, get into all our vehicles, steal multiple things (Glock 26, 2 tan yeti 30 hoppers, crossbow, RC truck- Losi rock-Rey , spotting scope, my sons fishing backpack with all his gear and lures, my pellet gun, couple knives, the center console divider of my truck, and a pair of vortex diamondback binoculars).

I?ve already got the police report in, still in a bit of shock as our neighborhood has never had an issue but these fuckers decided to continue on and break into on of my neighbors cars, then open their garage and continue stealing.

i have cameras and video footage of them, all given to the sheriffs office, and will be digging in further with other cameras to hopefully get some more details.

if anyone has any advice on what else to provide to police or local pawn shops I?d appreciate it.

It's truly sickening what people do. The good news is it?s just stuff, all I really care about is my family is safe they didn?t try to come in the home. If they did we would have a much different outcome.

be careful out there, the quiet local semi-country place I grew up in is truly gone. This state needs some serious changing.

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Truly Sorry Man.
As far as what to give the Police and anything further..............
Serials of anything they took if you can.
Talk to neighbors and any video you can give them......... ie any video of the vehicle/s they were in.
Photos of anything unique........ie the knives, yes you can describe it but a "photo tells a thousand words"

I had the same thing happen a few years ago.............well left my truck unlocked in front of the house........... I live in North Thornton, where this isn't supposed to happen.

Damn, that sucks. These sorts of thefts seem to be increasing. And rarely get caught.

Do your cameras give you notifications when they see motion?

Notifications are annoying, so I have mine set to only give me notifications at night. Speakers in my home will announce " there is someone in your driveway" or "a person is in your garage" at night.

It's also getting common for them to break into a car in the driveway and use the garage door opener to get into the garage (and potentially your house if the door isn't locked). I deactivate my garage door openers at night as well so if they get into my car, they can't get into the garage.

I hope they catch those assholes.

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Until they bring back public hangings this shit will never stop.

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I live in North Thornton, where this isn't supposed to happen.

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Why isn't crime supposed to happed in Thornton?

Crime happens everywhere. Thieves are always looking for an opportunity- the easier, the better.

If you want to keep your stuff, make it more difficult for them.

Make sure your garage door closes. Make sure your truck is locked. Every time.

Don't leave valuables in the vehicle. Don't leave garage door openers in cars parked outside. Make sure all your doors and windows are difficult to get through. All the tips we have heard a million times.

We must be especially vigilant now, with the apparent crime wave driven by homeless drug addicts, rampant illegals and a society frightened of teaching morals.

Is there a Mile High flee market today?

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Originally Posted by eddiememphis

Why isn't crime supposed to happed in Thornton?

Crime happens everywhere. Thieves are always looking for an opportunity- the easier, the better.

If you want to keep your stuff, make it more difficult for them.

Make sure your garage door closes. Make sure your truck is locked. Every time.

Don't leave valuables in the vehicle. Don't leave garage door openers in cars parked outside. Make sure all your doors and windows are difficult to get through. All the tips we have heard a million times.

We must be especially vigilant now, with the apparent crime wave driven by homeless drug addicts, rampant illegals and a society frightened of teaching morals.

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I did this. 4” screws in the doors, security doors and all. Motion sensor lights, cameras almost everything. He cut through the security door with we don’t know what, stole several cameras, stole the motion sensor lights and kicked the man door on the garage so much it broke the wall and pulled Ramset nails out of the concrete. It was a few thousand in damages. They didn’t get in, but sure caused a lot of damage.


My belief is the only thing to stop them is a shotgun.

If you are going to confront home invaders make sure you are wearing body armor. Preferably with plates backing up ballistic kevlar. Point Blank is a good brand.

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Originally Posted by battlemidget

Glad you and yours are safe. Have you heard of DNA spray/gel? In a nutshell, synthetic DNA that's applied to things that might get stolen.

https://www.selectadna.us/

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The amount of times that LEO does a DNA test on stolen property is exactly zero.

The amount of times that LEO does even fingerprints on cases of stolen property isn't quite zero, but not far off.

There's enough backlog for DNA tests on aggravated rape alone. You practically have to get murdered before forensics takes a look at anything.

While I haven't looked at the site, the premise alone is marketing on CSI-watching soccer moms.

Court system and LEO have a lot of cases to handle, so each cases receives usually a baseline investment in time. They aren't committed to solving your crime, they're committed to going home at the end of the day.

Post any good pictures of the criminals faces.

I'm sure some on here can use them to identify the criminals.

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The amount of times that LEO does a DNA test on stolen property is exactly zero.

The amount of times that LEO does even fingerprints on cases of stolen property isn't quite zero, but not far off.

There's enough backlog for DNA tests on aggravated rape alone. You practically have to get murdered before forensics takes a look at anything.

While I haven't looked at the site, the premise alone is marketing on CSI-watching soccer moms.

Court system and LEO have a lot of cases to handle, so each cases receives usually a baseline investment in time. They aren't committed to solving your crime, they're committed to going home at the end of the day.

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I learned this lesson as the jury foreman of a felony menacing and burglary case. A key aspect of the case was that the suspect claimed he had not been in the victim's apartment for several years, so any strong prints of his on common touch items would be forceful evidence to the contrary. Yet, no print collection was even attempted in processing the scene. Our jury question to the judge and DA was met with a hemming and hawing answer about "resources", yet the charges could theoretically put the suspect away for a decade or more. More ammunition for why we acquitted him fairly quickly.

Stay very, very frosty Sniper- they now know you have firearms.
They may very likely return.


I do not miss Northglenn one iota.

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Originally Posted by battlemidget

Glad you and yours are safe. Have you heard of DNA spray/gel? In a nutshell, synthetic DNA that's applied to things that might get stolen.

https://www.selectadna.us/

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I have not but that is an awesome idea

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Originally Posted by hollohas

Damn, that sucks. These sorts of thefts seem to be increasing. And rarely get caught.

Do your cameras give you notifications when they see motion?

Notifications are annoying, so I have mine set to only give me notifications at night. Speakers in my home will announce " there is someone in your driveway" or "a person is in your garage" at night.

It's also getting common for them to break into a car in the driveway and use the garage door opener to get into the garage (and potentially your house if the door isn't locked). I deactivate my garage door openers at night as well so if they get into my car, they can't get into the garage.

I hope they catch those assholes.

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Yeah we get notifications but I didn’t wake up to it unfortunately.
Definitely changing up some things after this happening.

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Originally Posted by BPTactical

Stay very, very frosty Sniper- they now know you have firearms.
They may very likely return.


I do not miss Northglenn one iota.

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Absolutely! They didn’t try to come back last night I stayed up late and watched the cameras, definitely on high alert as are the neighbors. It was posted in our neighborhood Facebook with the videos and people are on the lookout

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Wow that is infuriating! Do you have a dog by chance? I wonder if mine would make enough noise to alert me in such a scenario... but I agree with earlier posts. Making sure the door closes and vehicles are locked is sadly necessary. I'm amazed I still see my neighbor kids just walk right into the front door of their house after school, knowing full well the parents are at work... not even locked. Maybe the older kid is home, I don't know... but you're right about the towns we grew up in being gone.

I know everyone likes their cameras high, but I have a few lower ones for if they are wearing hats. I have high and lower ones that are camoed pretty well. They stole the high ones by getting on the roof of the house. I bought three packs of stealth cams for $150. They take 8 AA batteries and last about a year on a set.
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Yeah we have 2 dogs but they must not have heard them

How infuriating!

Kim Komando advises storing your car remotes in a metal box to prevent people from activating them from outside. I don't know if that hack works for garage door remotes as well but I no longer leave the remotes for my garage door opener in any vehicle parked outside and I'm going to clear out the built-in remote on the Jeep I park outside.

This brings back bad memories when my Aurora house garage door didn't close 20 years ago. The thieves targeted all my tools and auto detailing equipment. I lost a lot of money in tools that day. I got nothing back. It's definitely nice to have all the surveillance equipment now. Colorado cities don't prosecute thieves; that's the reality. Happy it was just stuff. It was really unnerving knowing that they had access to the house through the garage.

Yep we have changed up a lot of stuff in the last few days. Hoping these guys screw up and post something for sale or stop at the local pawn shops or get caught with the gun or other items with serial numbers.

One thing that really sucks is insurance. Sure they cover it with a deductible but then I was told premiums usually go up 10-20% for 3 years and just pray you don’t have another claim. If it was a big $$ number it makes sense if not you are basically just out.

Whole neighborhood is now on high alert and seen some patrolling going on. If these guys come back I don’t think it will end up well for them as the sheriff has been around a ton.

I understand that the OP's garage door was TU, but how did the perps open the neighbor's doors without being detected? At our old Arvada home, you could hear the garage opener throughout the house.

[Lovely smartphone PC autocorrect changed "perps" to "peeps". [facepalm]]

Newer garage door openers are pretty quite. Even with my old heavy wooden garage door I often can't tell if the door is opening/closing when I'm in the bedroom right on top of the door. If I'm in my garage and someone comes to my front door I'll open the garage door, walk around the corner and scare the daylights out of whoever is at my front door because they didn't hear the garage door.

Thieves are getting more brazen and craftier. They're aware that advancements in technology to enhance our lives also opens opportunities for them to take advantage of us.

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Newer garage door openers are pretty quite. Even with my old heavy wooden garage door I often can't tell if the door is opening/closing when I'm in the bedroom right on top of the door. If I'm in my garage and someone comes to my front door I'll open the garage door, walk around the corner and scare the daylights out of whoever is at my front door because they didn't hear the garage door.

Thieves are getting more brazen and craftier. They're aware that advancements in technology to enhance our lives also opens opportunities for them to take advantage of us.

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This.

Just replaced the garage door openers for my mom, and the new ones are incredibly quiet. The door, with a little bit of bolt tightening and some grease quieted way down too.

Crime in general is rising pretty noticeably in most population "centers" (front range, I70 corridor of Western Slope, etc).

The house across the alley from me was a meth house, 15yo girl OD'd there. The lady that owns it is on trial for being the legal guardian of the 15yo and allowing the shenanigans to go on. Someone that she has had living there for a while stole a car from Boulder, crashed it multiple times coming to SE LGMT, and then ran into the house. Got to watch BPD, LPD, and BCSO all hang out with shields and rifles out. Flew a drone into the house to spot said meth-head, threatened to go in and get him, but he gave up and came out after they told him the K9 unit was 3 minutes out.

Apparently he didn't want to make friends with the puppy...[panic] Tying into the other thread, he was a winner with face tats. [beatdeadhorse]

My neighbor (2 doors away) has been through 2 attempted car jackings in LGMT in the last 3 months. He works really weird and inconsistent hours. One of the attempts was late at night, 2 homeless clowns started "fighting" in the street in front of him at a light, and then 2 more tried to sneak up from behind and the sides to get into the doors. He just gunned it through the light, and supposedly almost hit the 2 fighters.

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This.

Just replaced the garage door openers for my mom, and the new ones are incredibly quiet. The door, with a little bit of bolt tightening and some grease quieted way down too.

Crime in general is rising pretty noticeably in most population "centers" (front range, I70 corridor of Western Slope, etc).

The house across the alley from me was a meth house, 15yo girl OD'd there. The lady that owns it is on trial for being the legal guardian of the 15yo and allowing the shenanigans to go on. Someone that she has had living there for a while stole a car from Boulder, crashed it multiple times coming to SE LGMT, and then ran into the house. Got to watch BPD, LPD, and BCSO all hang out with shields and rifles out. Flew a drone into the house to spot said meth-head, threatened to go in and get him, but he gave up and came out after they told him the K9 unit was 3 minutes out.

Apparently he didn't want to make friends with the puppy...[panic] Tying into the other thread, he was a winner with face tats. [beatdeadhorse]

My neighbor (2 doors away) has been through 2 attempted car jackings in LGMT in the last 3 months. He works really weird and inconsistent hours. One of the attempts was late at night, 2 homeless clowns started "fighting" in the street in front of him at a light, and then 2 more tried to sneak up from behind and the sides to get into the doors. He just gunned it through the light, and supposedly almost hit the 2 fighters.

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My family frequents Longmont often and my elderly Mom lives there too. Can you share approximate locations and times of day for your neighbor's carjacking incidents?

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My family frequents Longmont often and my elderly Mom lives there too. Can you share approximate locations and times of day for your neighbor's carjacking incidents?

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I'll get more details. I know the one in the middle of the night was Main St, somewhere along the downtown drag (3rd to 9th).

I'll post here and PM you after I talk to him again.

Well the Longmont thing is disappointing. 3rd to 8th is the crime hotspot here and has been for a while.
I noticed a few odd cars in my hood too and we have generally gone to keeping doors locked.

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Well the Longmont thing is disappointing. 3rd to 8th is the crime hotspot here and has been for a while.
I noticed a few odd cars in my hood too and we have generally gone to keeping doors locked.

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Being in SE LGMT, Southmoor Park, we have had a LOT of random cars showing up to "car camp". It's more common on the through streets, but even on my cul de sac we had someone show up and plan to live in their car. The neighbors called the cops and they made sure that wackjob moved on.

Fences are getting tagged, teens cut through yards with no/downed fences, shed roofs are getting tagged where easily accessible. One along 287 on the west side between Quebec and Pike.

Cameras and motion detector lights seem to keep people from screwing with me too much, but I am actively planning/working towards leaving LGMT for significantly less populated areas.

You are far braver than I am if you were leaving vehicles and other doors unlocked with any regularity "recently".

I have limited garage space so vehicles are outside. The garage is equipped with an opener but we don’t use it except from inside the garage. We don’t leave anything of value in any of the vehicles, never a gun or a weapon of any sort. I leave the topper on the pickup unlocked so that if someone opens it they will see nothing except a case of water. I used to lock it but someone bent one side trying to pry it open and damaged it. There is zero evidence that I have guns, no decals or stickers or signs on vehicles or structures. My next door neighbor has a motion activated light and camera and I have two cameras, one front of the house and one backyard, both of them inside and behind the windows.

Sorry you had to go through this, thieves suck.

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I'll get more details. I know the one in the middle of the night was Main St, somewhere along the downtown drag (3rd to 9th).

I'll post here and PM you after I talk to him again.

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Thanks!

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Originally Posted by Grant H.

Being in SE LGMT, Southmoor Park, we have had a LOT of random cars showing up to "car camp". It's more common on the through streets, but even on my cul de sac we had someone show up and plan to live in their car. The neighbors called the cops and they made sure that wackjob moved on.

Fences are getting tagged, teens cut through yards with no/downed fences, shed roofs are getting tagged where easily accessible. One along 287 on the west side between Quebec and Pike.

Cameras and motion detector lights seem to keep people from screwing with me too much, but I am actively planning/working towards leaving LGMT for significantly less populated areas.

You are far braver than I am if you were leaving vehicles and other doors unlocked with any regularity "recently".

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Fortunately, my Mom's area on the westside near Harvard and Mountain View has been pretty stable with little to no incidents. Her neighbors are established good people.

When in Longmont, my family usually operates on the lower Hover corridor (Fairgrounds, Target, King Soopers) and the upper Main Corridor (Murdochs, 287 Walmart). From what I have seen, there are a few degenerates in the Hover corridor, but way more over on Main.