Plucky Senior Scares Off Ruse Burglars

A man tried to lure an elderly woman out of her house while his accomplice tried to get inside in an attempted ruse burglary on the 8700 block of South 49th Court, police said.

The 73-year-old woman said that a man in his early thirties with a shaved head and wearing a white T-shirt knocked on her door around 2:30 p.m. Oct. 3.

Speaking in broken English, the man asked the woman to step outside and help him. He asked her if she spoke Spanish and if anybody else was inside the house as he walked her down the driveway.

The woman told him her husband was home. Police said that all the while she could hear her dog barking inside the house.

At this point she remembered hearing about a neighbor whose house was robbed where the burglar led her outside.

According to the report, the woman turned around toward her house where she saw an older, heavy-set man in his fifties standing by the side door.

She yelled at both men and told them that her dog bites. She then warned them that she was calling police.

Both men got into a clean, white mini-van and pulled out of her driveway, where they fled northbound on 49th Court.

Police said that the younger man waved at the woman as they drove away. Officers said that the woman’s husband was downstairs in the basement during the incident.

He heard the dog barking but did not hear anyone walking around upstairs. The couple told police that nothing appeared to be missing in their home.

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