Friend of mine. Centennial home robbery yesterday

[Adawg38]

That's some scary s$%^! Glad your friends ok and they are lucky they aren't 6 ft under right now.

[KevDen2005]

I feel bad for your friend. I can understand to a point the responding deputies skepticism on a successful prosecution. Let me give you an example from that judicial district.

A burglary occured at a residence. Owner comes home and opens the garage door and finds a vehicle inside the garage that doesn't belong to him. Goes inside. Finds the house rummaged through and an open back door. Finds a sock belonging to him on the back lawn.

Police swab the vehicle in the garge (reported stolen the previous day) and a coke can in the console for DNA. Same with the sock. DNA hits on the coke can and the sock. Two different males, one on each item. Later, DNA matches occur as both males are swabbed for DNA and added to the database due to being incarcerated for...burglary. Both grew up in the same neighborhood, but claim to not know each other.

When interviewed, both deny involvement in burglary and don't know how their DNA got on the items.

DA won't prosecute as police can't prove either was inside the residence, although the sock found outside was originally inside in the laundry room (in case you haven't figured it out, the sock was used as a glove to keep from putting fingerprints on things). While I can see that maybe the guy whose DNA was on the coke can can claim he touched that can earlier in the day when he was in the vehicle and dropped off before the real suspects went to the residence, the guy whose DNA was in the sock cannot make such a claim. I could see the DA not prosecuting the coke can guy, but not going after the sock guy doesn't make sense to me.

Anyway, just a real life example of that judicial district's thoughts on prosecution of these types of crimes.

A sock?! I was in the army my friend. I was thinking something completely different for the use of the sock.

[ray1970]

My guess would be that most home robberies occur during the day while their occupants are off at work. I know it happened that way to my brother and to my mom. In fact, my mom came home and caught the guy there too. Only my mom didn't go into the house when she saw the back door was opened. She was armed but stayed in her vehicle in the driveway and called the police. The intruder must have heard her drive up because while she was on the phone the guy bolted out the back door of the house and ran. They actually caught him shortly afterwards.

[battle_sight_zero]

Was that centennial east or west?

East meaning the Aurora side of Centennial?

I heard this come across a scanner around on University and Dry Creek. If it was not the one I heard then it was very similar. ACSO got into the area instantly as the call was aired, but I believe the neighbor had them on the run. This area of Centennial is quite safe, the ACSO and citizens do a good job of keeping it so.

Seems to me that there are a lot more burglarys these last 18 months. Personally I think people should invest in home security systems whether a monitoring service or a self monitoring service. Just fortifying and making things difficult for a potential burglar can help to. Either way another good reason to have a CCW since this woman came upon something in her home unkowningly.

[kwando]

Seems to me that there are a lot more burglarys these last 18 months. Personally I think people should invest in home security systems whether a monitoring service or a self monitoring service. Just fortifying and making things difficult for a potential burglar can help to. Either way another good reason to have a CCW since this woman came upon something in her home unkowningly.

Bingo! Not just a basic monitoring system that over priced ADT charges for... What good is 2 doors with no window sensors. You need all windows, motion on basement and floor levels. Garage door as well and the door from outside into the garage. I can monitor my alarm on my phone, i can turn on lights, open and close my garage door, i get a txt when someone rings my doorbell, etc. All with monitoring for 1/2 of what ADT charges... i have an alarm guy that does awesome work if anyone needs his info.

here are some screen shots from my phone this morning

[BUC303]

What OneGuy said. I'd like to add that the level of investigation OneGuy mentioned is both labor & financially intensive and most local and county jurisdictions don't have the $ or personnel to handle these things. Most go UN-investigated (at least that's how it is in Colo Spr).

Yeah I misinterpreted the post I suppose, thinking since the neighbor took off after them he would have had a license plate number and or been in pursuit to alert the authorities of the perps actual location while fleeing, read too much into that looks like. I can understand that in a robbery you come home to and your things are destroyed or missing there is little luck in finding those responsible, but I would think if you walked in on a robbery in progress it may be a different situation since there was face to face confrontation? This is the sort of confrontation I would think the police would contact the local news about to get a description of the men and vehicle out to the general public, but again I understand the money and personnel stand point. Glad she's okay.


Also Kwando.....that is awesome

[Chad4000]

Yeah I misinterpreted the post I suppose, thinking since the neighbor took off after them he would have had a license plate number and or been in pursuit to alert the authorities of the perps actual location while fleeing, read too much into that looks like. I can understand that in a robbery you come home to and your things are destroyed or missing there is little luck in finding those responsible, but I would think if you walked in on a robbery in progress it may be a different situation since there was face to face confrontation? This is the sort of confrontation I would think the police would contact the local news about to get a description of the men and vehicle out to the general public, but again I understand the money and personnel stand point. Glad she's okay.


Also Kwando.....that is awesome

I guess there wasnt a liscense plate on the car they got in...

I might have an update for you guys in the next while... (Im also still trying to decide how much to post... hmm...lol)

[Chad4000]

kwando, that looks awesome.. Im going to have to look into that myself..

[Chad4000]

A sock?! I was in the army my friend. I was thinking something completely different for the use of the sock.

lol.. totally what I was thinking.. I heard "dna" and "sock" in the same sentence and went a different direction lol.

[Chad4000]

I heard this come across a scanner around on University and Dry Creek. If it was not the one I heard then it was very similar. ACSO got into the area instantly as the call was aired, but I believe the neighbor had them on the run. This area of Centennial is quite safe, the ACSO and citizens do a good job of keeping it so.

Seems to me that there are a lot more burglarys these last 18 months. Personally I think people should invest in home security systems whether a monitoring service or a self monitoring service. Just fortifying and making things difficult for a potential burglar can help to. Either way another good reason to have a CCW since this woman came upon something in her home unkowningly.

yeah neighbor had them on the run. My friend said the cops were there super fast... good on them... I talked with her again last night about CCW, and both her and her husband will be getting it done.