Northbrook burglaries on rise earlier this year

NORTHBROOK Cold weather isnt the only bad thing thats starting early this year.

Burglaries are up, too. Seven Northbrook homes were burglarized in September, compared to two in the same month in 2013 and two in September of 2012.

It seems a little early this year, said Mike OMalley, commander of the Northbrook Police investigations unit. Usually October November is a big time for residential burglaries.

OMalley said that it appears that catching one bunch of criminals wouldnt stop the crimes.

Its not all the same crew there are probably two or three crews setting up here, he said.

Some of the homes were entered through rear doors, and some through sliding glass doors. Some of those sliders werent alarmed, and some could have been better protected just by laying a pipe or rod in the lower track to block the opening of the doors, OMalley said.

The locks on patio doors are notoriously easy to foil.

The crimes dont seem to be confined to one or two parts of town, but have been sprinkled throughout the village and beyond. In Glencoe, there have been five burglaries in about the same period of time.

Its not just us, Glencoe Deputy Police Chief Alan Kebby said Monday. Its in Winnetka, too, all over the place.

Two of the Glencoe burglaries, and one of the Northbrook crimes on the 2900 block of Keystone Road Sept. 23 were break-ins of homes under construction. Furnaces, air-conditioning units, washers and dryers and TV sets went out the door.

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