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A burglary plan was foiled Monday morning when a man entering a home in a Pleasanton neighborhood on the city’s west side was confronted by one of two teenagers who were home at the time, police said.
The man allegedly knocked on the front door and when no one answered, entered the backyard and came into the house through an open window. The two teens were home and called 911. The man fled when he was confronted by one of the teens, who was also able to identify another man sitting in a car parked outside of the home.
When police arrived, they detained the man in the car and two K-9 units, one from the Pleasanton Police Department and the other from Dublin, searched in nearby backyards for the other suspect, who was found in a neighbor’s storage shed.
The suspects, ages 18 and 19 from San Jose, were arrested for burglary and booked at Santa Rita Jail.
Great thinking on the part of those girls!! Real mature actions. I’m glad they’re safe.
Two guys from San Jose, eh?? And we don’t even have BART from there yet. Maybe BART access isn’t the problem some made it out to be.
Calle Ricardo is kinda off the beaten path from San Jose. Wonder what ‘the rest of the story is’?? Connection to landscapers or the fairgrounds??
unclehomerr..
…for reminding us that things like this happen in Pleasanton. I tell my daughter to be careful about locking doors, shutting the garage, etc. She thinks they are “Boogey Man” stories and that never happens!
I work from home and belong to a few online chats for Moms at home. From these sources I’ve learned this is a common scenario. Burglars will knock, if no one is home enter the home through the garage. If someone does answer they pose as soliciters. The advice I’ve heard recently is if you are home and someone knocks or rings the doorbell, don’t open the door but let them know someone is home by either yelling through the door or another window.
As far as off the beaten path, Hansen has been a shortcut from the Freeway to other parts of Pleasanton. We now have the flashing your speed signs up which has alleviated speeding and there is less traffic down the street now. That said, leaving Hansen, to Valley, to the 680 onramps on Bernal isn’t that far and there are probably many neighborhoods up and down 680 that fit this description. Family homes with all the electronic trappings with easy access to the freeway. Stay safe everyone, let’s look out for each other and kuddos to the girls and a neighbor who helped catch these guys!
This also happened to my neice in roseville but the perpetrators were not caught.
last year we had frequent visits from what appear to be solicitors but who knows. Often they have no brochure or biz card. If you don’t answer they may try to break in, if you do answer you put yourself in danger. the best answer for us and our teenaged daughters was a monitored alarm system.
Now we all worry a bit less when the girls are left home alone for a while.
I am a mother at home with small children. A close friend’s husband (who’s a police officer) told me about these type of robberies. He suggested adding bolt locks to prevent the burglars from kicking your doors in as well as yelling through the door that you are not interested when they knock. I also have pepper spray stored in a few rooms of my house. I think it is time to get a large dog!
I have a .45 Long Colt for anyone breaking into my domain!
Big dog is a better idea! One look at SAM the black lab, they think twice. He does not bark, so when he is seen coming around the corner, the stranger moves fast to get out of the way. Seen this happen with a new pool person who was not aware of our dog. Thought twice before entering into our backyard.