CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Nearly every house on a block of Rockwood Road has been burglarized since Thanksgiving, and neighbors hardly know what to do anymore.
Thursday, it was the St. Hilaire's home with a huge hole in a back window. A computer, some cash and several gaming consoles were gone. Their dogs, to their surprise, were home, happy and full.
It seems the thief or thieves fed them to keep them occupied while cleaning house.
"We came home and the first thing that we saw was this red water bowl or food bowl in the hallway," Dan St. Hilaire told NewsChannel 36. "As you can see they threw an object through the window, raised it up, and from there the house was theirs. It shouldn't have been because of the dogs."
Between the two of them, Sam, a Rottweiler-German shepherd mix and Kineo, a Labrador-Weimaraner combo, weigh about 160 pounds.
CMPD's computer monitoring of crime shows nine break-ins within 1,000 feet of the St. Hilaire's home since December 2009. (That does not include the burglary at their home.)
Their next door neighbors' home has been hit three times. Another neighbor across the street tells us he has been robbed twice.
