This week’s police blotter had reports of two jewelry heists from single family homes in Montclair. Police are not saying if the incidents are related. Two weeks ago, we reported another Montclair home burglarized for bling.
On November 27, residents of Wayside Place left their home around 6 p.m. They returned at 10:30 p.m. to find their front door kicked in, lock broken, and the door frame in shambles on the floor. In the master bedroom, a burglar had rummaged through their belongings, including a dresser drawer holding diamond rings, necklaces, earrings, two Cartier watches, and a sapphire ring. The owners reported nine items missing, valued at $38,000.
On December 1, an Upper Montclair home on Club Road which backs up to Yantacaw Brook Park, was the target of a burglary. The homeowners told police no one was home between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. When the lady of the house returned home, she discovered the contents of her jewelry box scattered on her bedroom floor; in her daughter’s bedroom a jewelry box was also emptied on the floor.
When police arrived, she wasn’t sure how many pieces of jewelry were missing, however she did report two diamond necklaces, several gold necklaces and diamond earrings were missing. Value of the missing jewelry is estimated at $5,000. Police say the burglar got in the house by kicking in a basement window at the back.
Double Diamond Burglaries In Montclair
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“When the lady of the house returned home, she discovered the contents of her jewelry box scattered on her bedroom floor…”
Excuse me? “The lady of the house?” Did this happen in 1959? Or does Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced ‘bouquet’) live there? Fellow fans of “Keeping up Appearances” will get this reference. Who in the 21st century world “wrote” this?
Better to be the lady of the house versus a lady of the evening.
Time to go down to the Bloomfield Police Department for my purchase permit and get a revolver. This stuff is outta hand and home invasions are right around the corner. (I’m a huge liberal, by the way, but we believe in protecting our families too).
“That’s no lady, that’ my wife.” Ta-dum-dum.
Time to install burglar alarms.
While I guess I can take comfort in the fact that were a burgler to rummage through my jewelry box all he’d find would be crappy costume jewelry and numerous single earings, but I hate to think what it would cost to repair/replace the door and lock.
batman,
I go two permits in 2001 after some armed robberies in my neighborhood and being terrorized on 9/11 – I saw the second plane come in from a couple of blocks away and felt the heat from the explosion, later got caught in the dust cloud.
I felt the need to ‘arm’ myself. I takes a few weeks to issue permits. You need some personal references, they will call your employer too. If you don’t have any felonies and are mentally fit you will get a permit. Once you purchase your weapon, there will be one final check with the NJ State Police and then you can take physical ownership of the weapon. You will also need a NJ State firearms ID card which does not require a specific permit. This card allows you to purchase ‘long guns’ and ammo.
I got my weapons at the Bullet Hole in Belleville. They have a target range and can arrange for instruction.
When I first started to go there there were lots of cops in the joint, some real ‘cowboys’ from Newark Police Dept. They kept asking me if I was ‘on the job’. It wasn’t the first or last time I’ve been mistaken for a cop. It must be my Irish good looks! Ha ha.
Good luck with your permits.
gotta make sure you are qualified and competent to exercise your Constitutional rights after all.
Thank goodness this process totally prevents criminals from getting guns or law abiding citizens would be at a disadvantage.
Thank goodness this process totally prevents criminals from getting guns or law abiding citizens would be at a disadvantage.
It prevents them from getting them legally (if enforced). By your logic, there shouldn’t be any bank robberies because we have laws against grand larceny.
This stuff is outta hand and home invasions are right around the corner.
Actually, crime continues to trend downward, for the most part. Yet it seems that the safer we are, the more paranoid we become.
” By your logic, there shouldn’t be any bank robberies because we have laws against grand larceny.”
not really mike. Your logic is faulty.
Owning a gun is both legal and a civil right. Just like having a bank account is legal. Misuse of either these might be illegal.
The actual parallel would be if citizens had to undergo background checks and interviews in order to obtain a bank account in a effort at reducing fraud.
It wouldn’t work. Fraud would still take place and law abiding citizens would be inconvenienced
Owning a gun is both legal and a civil right.
Which right you have until you are a convicted felon. Then you don’t. Background checks make sure you’re not a felon (or insane). The fact that non-felons are ‘inconvenienced’ can’t possibly be an issue, can it?
The actual parallel would be if citizens had to undergo background checks and interviews in order to obtain a bank account in a effort at reducing fraud.
Try getting a bank account or a credit card after you’ve been convicted of fraud. Same thing.
I might add that if you’re record is clean and you get a gun and misuse it, then no law except the banning of guns would change that.
If that’s your point, then I’m glad you’re on board with more restrictive gun laws.
What Mellon describes is considerably more than determining wether or not he’s a convicted fellon, wouldn’t you agree?
I have no problem with giving your SSN and waiting 3 days. But it sounds like a lot more than that is required.
I’d like to see NJ adopt a more liberal policy regarding CCW permits. One for the waistband and another for the ankle.
Until then, ‘better to be judged by twelve, than buried by six’..
My front door is pretty expensive and I hate cleaning up big messes.
I think I’ll just leave my jewelry under the doormat.
(Lets hope they are smart enough to check!)
They had $38,000 worth of jewelry in the house but no alarm? Sheesh!
Re: Gun Permits – Your local police department has a legal obligation to either approve or deny your request your application within 30 calendar days. A lot of departments will tell you it’s 30 “working” days (it’s not). But, there’s not a whole lot you can do about it.
The quickest turn-around I’ve heard from my friends who own hand guns was 45 days (and the other end of the spectrum has had them waiting anywhere from 60 – 90 days. One didn’t get any word until a week after he went back to the station… 4 months after originally filing the permit).
Illegal guns are a lot easier to get and there is much less paperwork. What caught my eye in this story was the fact that the “door frame was in shambles.” That was one (or more) very determined burglar. And guns don’t really work if you aren’t home when you are getting ripped off. Take lots of photgraphs of your jewelry with circles and arrows and good description on the back in red pen. And make sure your Homeowner’s Insurance says “replacement value.” You would be amazed at how fast an adjuster can prorate your missing goodies.
What is the least bit humorous about someone’s home being robbed? Given the state of the economy, unemployment, etc., it is entirely likely that the frequency of these types of incidents may unfortunately rise. We have had a long run of prosperity which has undoubtedly helped keep these type of crime statistics low. People have perhaps also gotten somewhat complacent about security.
When we moved to Montclair in the early ’90s, the economy was coming out of a rough patch. At that time the news was rife with stories of burglaries(several in the immediate UPMTC area), car thefts (my neighbor’s car was stolen out of is driveway), and even one particularly horrific incident of a violent assault on a woman who was followed into her home by her attacker(s).
We need to be collectively more vigilant. Watch out for your neighbors. Call the police, they will respond very quickly. And recognize that not to have a security system invites theft.
Oh, and about the gun discussion, what are you going to do, shoot someone? For the record, I believe in a person’s right to own firearms and to protect their home and property, but get serious. We’re not talking about roving bands of deranged killers on the loose. There is a big difference between burglary and wholesale societal breakdown.
Please, people. When are you going to learn? NO HUMOR! This is a serious Web site! Dammit, why am I always the enforcer?
Large, alert watch dogs are even better than guns!