Just want to let everyone know that I stopped a home break in yesterday in our neighborhood. I came home from work for a few minutes to drop something off and my neighbor acrossed the street said that a man was at her door. When I pulled up in my medic truck. She said he took off running. She then saw him at the dead end of Pantina Way. My partner and I drove down there and confronted the man. He said he gets dropped off and he goes door to door selling a product. He had one flier and it was all bent up and worn. I informed him that there is no soliciting in our addition and that I was getting on my radio and having law enforcement started to have him checked out. He took off when I said that. He went down the path back towards the park we donated to the city.
The man was white, 20-30 yo and about 5'8' and 175 lbs. Short black hair. blue and white hawaiian type shirt, white or cream colored knee length shorts.
My neice is an IMPD officer and she arrested 5 men about 3 weeks ago here in the township. In her case it was a white male being dropped off by 4 black men. He walks the neighborhood knocking on doors and when there is no answer he kicks the door in and calls for the other guys in the car to come, and in a few minutes they are gone. Me neighbors dog barking kept him from kicking her door in. When I stopped him in front of the other house, they were not home, he was getting ready to enter the house but I got there before he kicked their door in.
My neice said there is a group of several of these guys hitting the neighborhoods in Franklin Twp. They have hit several neighborhoods around Thompson Rd. and Five Points Rd. She said they believe that they have someone casing the neighborhoods and taking a picture of the homes they believe are vulnerable and then sending the crew back to break in. This is in broad daylight.