In Custody

I just got off the phone with the Detective working on our case. I have to start by saying he was the nicest, most empathetic and understanding person. I’m so glad to have someone so awesome working on our case!

The info below is pretty choppy, but it’s the info the detective and I discussed and info I got.

They have the (bluish/ green) car that was used in our burglary and the owner of the car in custody. This guy will be charged with one other burglary and is linked to ours. However, they haven’t found the proof yet to link him to ours.

It’s a group of Hispanic males that live in Oak Terrace on Marion Road and have been doing these break-ins. They have searched their residences but no luck finding any of our property yet, and the hope of that happening sounds small.

People in our area had noticed some suspicious vehicles and Hispanic males walking around houses before and after ours. We have such a great neighborhood and everyone is always looking out for everyone and knows who/ what cars should and should not be around. We've been thankful for this many times.

Another home behind ours was broken into this Wednesday and their focus in their break in’s have been big screen/ flat screen TVs. (They have found some of the TVs.) They were scoping out residences in a time frame before our break in, and it’s easy to see how they saw in our windows and scoped what we have as I’m not a huge believer in curtains… I love the sunshine and “openness of a big window” but that may change now! Driving by our house at night or peeking in, may have lead them to believe we had a nice big screen…. Little did they know once they got in, it’s old and weighs A LOT and would not fit in their back seat. So, they may have taken a few things they saw laying around and moved on to bigger and better homes. It’s SO creepy to think someone may have been looking in and scoping this out at night while we are feeling safe and alone in our home. He said he can’t believe they came in our place… it’s not a “typical” target since we are on the main drag and they came right in the front of the house.

Another Hispanic male who had some stuff stolen also did confront this group and as the detective put it, “had his head bashed in”… so that is a little unsettling.

The detective did reassure me they have had 4 guys working on this and they have been very aggressive and did make the one guy in custody cry yesterday…. That brings some sense of peace to us! Remorse/ Fear??!! Who knows… but tears are good! Ha ha!

As of now, our case is staying open, and they will keep me updated. Please help pray for more property to be found and these guys to be caught!

The conversation ended by the detective saying, “Jenny, I have to tell you something. We’ve been emailing each other. You and I have emailed about the wrestling program I run and getting Cason involved in it.” WHAT A SMALL WORLD! I told him I was very excited for that to start and I look forward to meeting him in person very soon!

I worked with American Family yesterday and they were very easy to work with and we do not have to prove that we owned any of the stolen items like I was first told.

Troy is at home as I write this getting the security system installed!

There is a news article and clip on KAAL.com if anyone is interested.

Have a great weekend…. We are feeling MUCH better with every day and each new GOOD thing that happens.