Omaha, NE: West Omaha Homeowners need to be on alert. A warning from Douglas County Sheriffs after three crooks target two homes in ten minutes. To the suspects surprise, both owners fight back.
The suspects first prey on Cindie Marshall Thanasas corner home at 18903 T Circle. Marshall Thanasas says one thought went through her mind, "I was being intruded and this person was not coming through that door."
She says shortly after 1:00 Monday afternoon, a man rang the doorbell. Within seconds the man slipped through the unlocked door and was inside trying to sell Gatorade. "He put a Gatorade bottle in front of him. I said, 'What are you doing in my house?' and he says I'm selling Gatorade. And I that's when I told him you're too old to sell Gatorade! I turned around and I just took the door in my hand and I just shoved him like this and closed the door," she explains.
Marshall Thanasas says the men took off in a silver or gray SUV. The suspects took off and set sights on a second house located only blocks away at 4860 S. 189th Circle. That homeowner also fought back.
"Never was I scared. It was just a matter I didn't want them in the house," he says. We are not identifying the homeowner. He says he heard someone trying to open the back patio door and went to investigate when the dog started barking. That's when the front doorbell rang.
The homeowner quickly peered out a front window and saw the robber. "I saw a kid walking across the front yard and I followed him across all of our front windows." But he wasn't alone. The homeowner says he watched the three suspects as they moved around his home. "I followed them all the way down our wall here and watched as they jumped the retaining wall into our back walk out porch," he explains. That's when the homeowner ran downstairs. "I could see daylight as the door was being kicked open," he continues to explain he yanked the blinds back and scared them off.
With two home invasions in a matter of ten minutes and just blocks apart, Action 3 News went straight to Douglas County Sheriffs Investigators to find out what's being done to get these crooks off the streets. CChief Deputy Marty Bilek says thanks to good descriptions of the suspects from both victims, investigators are working around the clock to follow-up. "It's getting very high priority because home intrusions are very serious crime and the potential for violence and injury or death is very high," he says.
Chief Deputy Bilek wants homeowners in west Omaha to take action to protect themselves. He says think about buying a security system or safety latches for doors and windows. Also, as it gets closer to Christmas, Bilek advises people NOT place gifts out in sight of potential robbers.
Douglas County Sheriffs say two of the three suspects are white males, the other is Hispanic. Marshall Thanasas says one of the white males is over six-feet tall. She says he has short brown hair, brown eyes and a thin beard leading to a goatee.
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