Tag: burglary
SimpliSafe honors home defenders with LTD signage for National Dog Day
August 17, 2022Ken Showers, Managing Editor
BOSTON – Home security system maker SimpliSafe is offering up a selection of unique yard signs honoring Home Security’s original protector.
August 26 was National Dog Day, and SimpliSafe has six unique limited edition yard signs that celebrate dogs as home protectors and are available free of purchase at SimpliSafe.com/DogDay while supplies last.
"As the experts in home protection, we uniquely know what it takes to protect our customers and the lives they've built," said...
Burglar must pony up for victims' new security system
August 29, 2013SSN Staff
AUGUSTA, Maine—After their house was robbed, a Maine couple lost their feeling of security. They had an alarm system installed to help them feel safe. A judge has ordered the burglar to pay for his victims' security system.
Brandon M. Rimes, of Fairfield, Maine, pled guilty Aug. 6 to robbing the home of Charlotte and Del Lovejoy, his neighbors, who he and Jason Horne burglarized Dec. 6, according to the Portland Press Herald.
“I'm still upset. I'm still scared to death,” Charlotte...
Church intruders bungle burglary
April 8, 2013SSN Staff
DETROIT—Intruders broke into the New Greater Faith Missionary Baptist Church, and things seemed to be going according to plan until one of them answered a ringing phone. Unfortunately for them, the call was from the alarm company, according to an article from mlive.com, a Michigan digital news outlet.
The alarm company called to ask why the alarm was triggered at 2:30 a.m. When the intruder provided an unsatisfactory answer and did not know the alarm code, the alarm company told him that the...
Security system helps nab burglary suspect
March 7, 2013SSN Staff
HOMEWOOD, Pa.—Authorities here said a home security system helped police catch a burglary suspect early Wednesday morning, according to an article from WXPI, a news station based in Pittsburgh.
Officers were dispatched to a house just after 3 a.m. March 6 when the home's alarm system went off, according to the police report. The keypad informed the victim that the alarm's activation point was his garage.
When he went to the garage, baseball bat and machete in hand, he saw the suspect with tools...