Not only were they broken into...

by Dale Burger

For 24 years I have been in the security industry selling, installing and monitoring home and office burglar alarm systems. In that time I've seen a lot of scary and hurtful things happen. Most break-ins are done by kids, drug addicts and gangs looking for drugs or items they can pawn for money to buy drugs. When they are in a home they are not nice about it. It's estimated that approximately 84% of burglaries are somehow drug related.

Recently there have been some changes to this pattern. In the last few months I know of three homes that not only were they broken into...their refrigerators and freezers were completely cleaned out. They lost some valuables and cash but also lost hundreds of dollars from the food taken. These have become crimes of desperation.

At one of these homes they also took 3 spools of 12 gauge copper wire from the garage which can be sold to a recycling center for quite a bit of cash. So if you think you don't have anything worth stealing, you might want to reconsider what you do have.