A Tangletown resident says that she believes she interrupted a burglary attempt at her home last night (Wednesday, April 20, 2011), and she wants to warn others to secure their basement windows.
“We walked to the store around 6 p.m.,” she says. “We were gone about 15 minutes, and when we returned I immediately heard something in the basement. The cat and I both perked up, eyes wide. I called out that there was a noise in the basement, and my boyfriend stepped down there but didn’t see anything. We think now that what I heard was the scraping of the window being either opened or closed. Luckily, we don’t believe anyone actually got in.”
The home’s basement window was screwed shut, she says, but the wood was old and the the screw was pushed out. ”There are now multiple screws in that window,” she reports, “and we’re fortifying the rest of the windows today as well.”
According to the resident of the home, the attempted burglary was reported to the Seattle Police Department, who sent four police cars to the scene. We will be able to confirm this via a police report within the next couple of days, and will update this post with any additional information at that time.
Update, Saturday April 23 – A Seattle Police Department report confirms that the North Precinct responded to an attempted forced-entry burglary that took place at a residence in Tangletown on Wednesday, April 20 at approximately 6:30 p.m.
