HOUSTON – Vigilance is top of mind Tuesday in a southwest Houston neighborhood where multiple burglaries were reported over the past few months.
Some of the crimes happened on Meadowland Drive & S. Gessner in the Tanglewilde subdivision.
It’s unclear if all the incidents are related but some of the victims turned to KPRC 2 with surveillance footage hoping someone who knows something will speak up.
The first victim in this string of burglaries is now so on edge she’s keeping a low profile, unable to go on camera, but did not hesitate to tell her story via phone
“It was October 27th…I was in Fort Worth and I got a call from ADT,” she said. “It was about 4:30 I guess and they said your garage door was open.”
She says the thieves didn’t stick around very long.
“Whoever, was able to grab some of my jewelry…My mom’s diamond bracelet that I had taken out of the safety deposit box was the thing I was most upset about,” she said.
The next month, on Thanksgiving eve, the woman’s next door neighbor’s home was burglarized, believed to be by a person who may have had an accomplice.
“What did they take?” Deven Clarke asked.
“Mostly cash,” said the victim who also asked not to be identified. “It’s not so much what he took, it’s what he left. The mess, the smell, the feeling of being violated.”
Then, the next month on December 6, the man’s home was struck again.
“My son just told me that his sunglasses were lost. That’s not the big deal, it’s the damage and the fact that he came in our house,” he said.
The properties sit just a few yards away from busy S. Gessner Road. The victims think that the burglar or burglars used the bayou behind the homes as a way to get inside the backyard and also were able to hide behind the tall grass. Now, they’ve taken it upon themselves to cut the grass down, hoping to increase visibility.
In a video from late December, someone wearing the same clothes as seen in previous photos, a light colored hoodie and green gloves, was seen in another neighbor’s yard trying to open a shed and casing the property. That is until it appears they notice a surveillance camera, and make a beeline back to the bayou. Anyone who knows about these cases is asked to call police immediately.
