Burglars Target Midtown Home Twice In One Day

Burglars hit the same midtown house twice in one day. The victim scared them off the first time but said hours later they came back when no one was home.

Police said they were the third house in the area to be broken into that day.

They had a security system, three big dogs and next door neighbors who were home at the time, but even all of that didn't stop the thieves.

Tools and nails are still sitting out at Blake Rowden's home. He was up for hours repairing the front door burglars destroyed.

"The front door had been damaged so badly we had to replace the whole door frame. The woodwork had been popped out of the wall," Rowden said.

He and his sister live in a house near 15th and Yale. He was at work when the first attempt happened, but she was there, with their three dogs, when burglars targeted their home.

"She heard what sounded like one of us entering the house, so she yelled out and the dogs freaked out and started barking," Rowden said.

Whoever it was left, but police didn't think they went far.

Rowden said, "They left and sat in their car down the street and waited until she left."

An hour later they were back at their house.

"They just walked right up to our front door, grabbed something out of our front yard and just went to town," said Rowden.

He said the thieves took a cement statue from the front porch and started banging on the front door.

"You'd think after hearing the dogs initially they would be deterred from coming back," Rowden said.

Once inside they grabbed a laptop and other valuables but avoided the room with the dogs.

All of this happened while Rowden's alarm system was going off and the police were on their way.

Some of the loot was found in their neighbor’s yard; police believe the burglars likely dropped it while running to their getaway car.

Rowden hopes one of the neighbors’ surveillance cameras caught it on camera.