A tipster writes:
Last night (Tuesday night 11/18/14) there was an attempted break-in of a house in the 3600 block of 39th Ave W (on 39th Ave W between W Emerson St and W Ruffner St.) ?The owners were not home at the time, but their alarm company contacted them around 7:30PM. ?When they got home shortly there after, they discovered the damage and called 911. ?Actually they called 911 THREE ?times, and waited several hours. ?The police logged the call at 11:48PM.The bad guys climbed over a locked gate/trellis (breaking off bits of it) at the side of the house, and went around to the back yard. From there they went up onto the deck, where they ripped out a thermometer sensor (thinking it was a camera ???) and placed a cardboard box over the motion sensor security lights to keep them turned off.They attempted to break through the double paned glass door into the house. ?Holes in the glass indicate they had some type of sharp tool or pickax. They managed to break the outer glass panel, but the alarm system has a ?breaking glass? sensor, and that set off the excruciatingly loud security horn which apparently then caused them to flee.
Even though neighbors were home at the time, everyone was indoors and no one heard the breaking glass. ?Police said they think the bad guys are new at this, and they have had other calls in Magnolia and QA which are similar.