Burglars Strike Again by Cutting Hole in Side of House

An estimated $15,000 of property was stolen from an Inwood Road address over the weekend after burglars cut a hole in the side of the house, said Monday.

According to Capt. Fred Komm, the residents returned to their home Sunday afternoon to discover a blue step ladder leaned against the side and a roughly 11" by 24" hole bored in a second floor exterior wall. The homeowners said they had been away since 11:30 a.m. Saturday.

Komm said that it appeared the burglars had removed some shingles, cut through the plywood sheeting with a handsaw, and punched through the sheetrock. After ransacking the home, they apparently exited through the front door.

Missing from the home was an undetermined amount of jewelry, a gold and diamond watch, a camera, and a 32' flatscreen TV — worth approximately $15,000 in all.

The burglary is not the first in recent months to feature a hole punched through a house, which Komm described as an "unusual method" of entry.

In August, an estimated $21,000 in jewelry  after unknown persons bored a 2' x 3' hole in the side of that house. Later that month, a residence on Valley Forge Road through a hole in the home's slate roof.

"It's very likely it was the same person or group of persons," Komm said, noting that a similar burglary had been reported recently in Fairfield.