Elaine Sandonato was in shock after hearing the hushed 911 call her granddaughter made from her bedroom closet while two men rifled through Sandonato’s home.
“I was crushed,” said Sandonato, whose Quincy home was broken into June 20 while her 15-year-old granddaughter was upstairs alone, unbeknownst to the burglars. “This should not be happening. This is my house.”
The girl stayed on the phone with police from her hiding spot while the men stole Sandonato’s jewelry, other valuables and even $1.50 in quarters off the bureau in the girl’s room, Sandonato and police said. Police said officers arrested two men as they fled the home and charged them with breaking and entering.
Police say harrowing stories like that one are extremely rare. Instead, most burglars have their trade down to a science that involves casing neighborhoods, using a lookout and, above all, avoiding suspicion.
“It’s like a job for them,” Marshfield Police Chief Phillip Tavares said. “They get up in the morning and they have an intent to go out and break into people’s houses. They scout neighborhoods and find the right places. It’s an all-day affair.”
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And most often, they try to avoid breaking in to a residence where someone might be home.
“They don’t want any confrontation,” Quincy police Capt. John Dougan said. “They want to get in, get what they need and get out quick.”
Most home break-ins happen during the day, when residents are most likely to be at work, police said. Many burglars will knock on the front door to see if anyone is home before trying to get inside. If they get an answer, they’ll have a pre-fabricated story about needing directions or collecting information for a survey.
In most cases, burglars are working to pay for a drug addiction, and the drug is usually heroin, Milton Police Chief Richard Wells said.
“They are 99.9 percent drug-dependent individuals,” he said. “That’s not a Milton thing. It’s a regional thing.”
Wells said break-ins are the “most significant crime” the department is facing.
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In December, police say an unwitting burglar burst through the bedroom door of an off-duty Duxbury police officer who had recently finished an overnight shift, but managed to get away. A Plymouth man was indicted in March on charges stemming from that break-in as well as others in Plymouth, Kingston, Rochester and Middleboro.
Several South Shore police departments said the number of home break-ins has fallen or stayed flat recently, in some cases after a sharp increase over the past few years. In Weymouth, for example, there have been 57 business and home break-ins so far this year, compared with 104 over the same period in 2012, police said.welcome to Buy Cheap Burberry Grade AAA Handbags online store,free Shipping available. Buy Now!
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