Criminal broke into a house and even took the gifts: victims call him “Grinch”

A thief broke into the home of a Chilean family in the Valparaíso region. The criminal
He took the gifts they had prepared for the holidays, as well as other personal belongings. This event occurred yesterday, December 21, in the early morning hours and was recorded on the security cameras that were filming outside.

Angela, one of the victims of the robbery, was the first to realize what had happened when she woke up in the early hours of the morning and discovered that the window of her house had been forced and the Christmas details arranged under the large Christmas tree , had also disappeared. The woman’s name is a fictitious one, since she asked the media Meganoticias that this was not disclosed, but his robbery case was.

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The thief even stole the gifts

It all happened around 5 in the morning, when a criminal took advantage of the early morning darkness to enter the house without anyone noticing. The owner, Angela, told the aforementioned media with obvious sadness the moments that followed the discovery of the theft.

“We woke up at 6:30 in the morning and, when we got up, we found the window completely open, as if someone had forced entry. The door was locked, and the gate too, but even so the thief managed to get in without us noticing,” the woman explained in an interview with Meganoticias.

“This Grinch ruined our Christmas,” she said, visibly affected. “I have a six-year-old little sister who had been looking forward to the presents under the tree. He woke up crying because he couldn’t find anything, not even his piggy bank, which he always kept lovingly. and that it was full of coins that she had saved for months,” she said about the theft.

In the images from the security cameras you can see the criminal, who, quickly and in a calculated manner, stole backpacks and small packages. “You can see in the images (from the security camera) how he took two backpacks, where he put the gifts. Those backpacks were my mother’s and there she had all her money, she had things from work,” added the owner of the house.

A neighbor believes he knows the robbery suspect

Despite the deep pain caused by the robbery, the family wasted no time in trying to find the person responsible. According to Angela, when asking the neighbors, a witness recognized the thief, he told them that, “had seen a man hanging around the area that same night.” He even mentioned that the subject tried to enter another house, but got trapped in the fence of a nearby property.

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They saw him and know who he is, but despite having called the authorities at 6:00 AM, they did not arrive until 9:30, according to the robbery victim.

The gifts that were stolen are expensive

The owner of the house called on Calera to be attentive, because she believes that her things could be sold at a fair. “Today at the fair, near the Líder, many stolen things are sold, and if you see anything that was taken from us, please report it”

She talks about several items that were stolen from her home in the early hours of the morning, which are “a red electric guitar, a Marshall brand amplifier, also a guitar, rings, jewelry,” respectively.