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Palo Alto police are still looking for leads in a case where burglars stole a 50-inch television, other electronic equipment and a mini-van while a family of four slept in their home in the 1500 block of Hamilton Avenue last weekend.
A window was left open and an alarm system wasn’t activated, police reported.
Detective Brian Philip said the burglars entered the residence through an open side window on a warm evening, apparently loaded the electronics items into a Toyota Sienna mini-van and drove away. The tan 1998 mini-van is still missing, he said.
Besides the television, stolen items included a camera, watch, cell phone and laptop computer, Philip said.
The home had an alarm system, but it was not activated at the time of the burglary, which occurred Saturday (July 3) between 3 and 6 a.m.
“This is an unusual burglary in that the suspects entered an occupied home and removed several
items without waking the residents,” Philip said.
He said warm summer evenings require normal precautions, from locking doors and windows to using deterrents, such as alarm systems and lights.
Philip said anyone with information may contact him by calling 650-329-2408. Anonymous
tips may be sent by e-mail to paloalto@tipnow.org.
— Palo Alto Weekly staff
— Palo Alto Weekly staff
— Palo Alto Weekly staff
The police are myopic about DUI arrests every holiday weekend. I’d rather have them patrolling the streets and stopping crimes such as this one.
I’d rather have someone lose a TV than get run over by a drunk when I’m walking my dog.
Do you really think checkpoints would prevent that from happening?
Sleeping through a burglary of major sized items in your own home is a good case for instituting a self-imposed limit of three shots of Tequila in one’s bedtime preparations…
Maybe it was a good thing that they remained asleep because if they had awoken and disturbed the theives, they could have got hurt – or worse.
Better prevention would be to ensure that the burglar alarm is switched on and that doors and windows are properly locked.
Better yet — get a dog!
“Do you really think checkpoints would prevent that [being run over by a drunk driver] from happening?”
Drunk driving check points are practical. Having the police monitor every house in town for a burglary in progress is not.
The costs of flash memory is getting down to about $1.50-$1.75/Gb (and will get cheaper over time). Soon, low-cost home surveillance equipment to become cheap enough that several cameras could be connected via wireless interface to a recording unit that would have enough memory on-board that would allow each of the cameras to record continuously, and all of their transmissions recorded and held for some number of days.
As the cost of police “protection” continues to go up, and up, it makes sense to look to low-cost, but effective, technology to protect our homes and property.
I only wish I could sleep that deeply!
The house has a security alarm which was not activated at that time, plus they left a side window open because it was warm? LIVE AND LEARN.
With so much residential construction going on, we have to be extra careful with the transient workers, plus the bad element across the freeway and neihgboring cities.
Too bad that the check point didn’t stop the thieves with their haul..they quit checking cars too early…
We have a description of the minivan. Is there a description of the suspects?
You also clearly need to pay attention to your own kind, as PA residents commit crimes in your city frequently.
To Enough! The car belonged to the victims, that’s why they have a description. I have a dog that gives us too much security [via barking] if anyone wants to give it a try!
oh no, they stole their car too? oy. so tired of people appropriating the property of others. no morals.
good thing the family wasn’t sleeping in their mini-van
how did they not wake up to any of this?????
Where did they buy their mattress.
This was the same area where a victim was raped after a break in. This area of Palo Alto is a hotbed for drug induced killers who come over the bridge on Newell.
There should be better surveillance.