Police: Rash Of Burglaries Hits Central Northbrook

Seven homes were burglarized within a mile of one another over a three-day span in Northbrook last week, according to police.

The burglaries took place on Greenview Road, Asbury Lane, Ash Lane, Meadow Road, Cedar Lane and Butternut Lane between Wednesday, Nov. 9, and Friday, Nov. 11, police reported. 

"There’s two separate areas where there seems to be more than the usual amount of burglaries," said Northbrook Police Officer Dan Petka."There's certainly a pattern." 

On the 2400 block of Asbury, someone entered a home between 11 p.m. Wednesday and 6:15 a.m. Thursday, while the family was sleeping on the second floor. The burglar stole an iPad, iPod Nano, $80 from a wallet and $6 from a purse, all of which were located in the kitchen on the first floor. Police believe the burglar may have entered the home through an unsecured rear sliding door. 

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Two people on Greenview Road also woke up Thursday morning to find that their homes had been burglarized during the night. At one residence in the 2100 block of the street, the homeowner discovered that a back door leading to his garage was open and that money was missing from an office desk and from his wallet. In the 2000 block of the same street, another resident reported that an iPad was stolen from his kitchen counter, and that the burglar may have entered through the unlocked front door.

That same night, $150 in cash, an iPod and an iPhone went missing from the kitchen of a home just a few steps away in the 1900 block of Butternut Lane. The resident of that home discovered that a wooden backyard gate was open and a back patio door may have been unlocked. According to police, there were no signs of forced entry. 

In the 2100 block of Butternut Lane, a car was also burglarized Wednesday night. Around 2:40 p.m., a man discovered that someone had taken approximately $50 inc ash from inside his wallet, which he had left on the console in his unlocked car inside his unlocked garage. Several credit cards inside his wallet were not stolen, however, according to police.

On Friday, two more burglaries were reported about a mile away from the first cluster. Upon returning home around 6:45 p.m., a resident of the 900 block of Meadow Road noticed that a rear window was broken, her front door was unlocked and the safe in her master bedroom and her jewelry had been taken. When she and her husband left the house that morning, all the doors were locked, but police noticed that patio furniture had been propped up against the side of the residence to reach her back window.

Not far away, in the 2300 block of Ash, a family came home at about 7:45 p.m. Friday to discover that mud was tracked through their home and that a safe, jewelry, two children’s change jars and a pillow case had gone missing from bedrooms. A rear living room window, which the family left unlocked when they left home at about 2:30 p.m. that day, was open, according to police. 

While canvassing the neighborhood for clues, police discovered evidence of a seventh burglary nearby in the 800 block of Cedar Road. In one home, an exterior screen window had been pried open and a patio chair was set beneath it so the burglar could get in. The homeowner discovered that a pillow case was missing as well as jewelry from the master bedroom.

Northbrook police detectives are currently investigating the burglaries.