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WEIRENS | A Burglar Taught Me Where Home Really Is
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A terrifying home invasion showed me a what’s important at Cornell.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/burglary/)
A terrifying home invasion showed me a what’s important at Cornell.
Three instances of burglaries occurred on Saturday, July 8 and another burglary occurred on Tuesday, July 18.
The bank burglary comes on the heels of several other burglaries in the Ithaca area in recent weeks. Two unoccupied fraternity houses in Ithaca were burglarized between Sept. 26 and Sept. 28. Before that, IPD was already investigating a streak of burglaries that occured between late August and mid September.
Between Sept. 26 and Sept. 24, two unoccupied fraternity houses, Phi Kappa Psi and Phi Gamma Delta, were burglarized. There were no descriptions of the suspect, according to a Cornell Crime alert.
After a short pursuit, Ithaca police arrest man allegedly involved in a burglary Saturday morning.
According to the resident, who lives on the 100 block of N. Quarry St., the suspect entered and stole property from their home. The suspect then fled the scene, according to the statement.
Daniel P. Samson and Tressa E. Mikula were accused of reportedly using power tools to burglarize a business in northeast Ithaca. Before they were able to complete the heist, the pair were interrupted by police.
“Overall, it’s increased reporting from everyone on campus,” Cornell University Police Chief David Honan told The Sun. Honan attributed some of the uptick in reporting numbers to increased data from campus security authorities, who are obligated to inform CUPD when violations or crimes occur.
“A tenant has just informed me that an intruder entered her apartment while she was home,” Posner wrote. “The person ran off with a TV.”
There are many aspects to “adulting” that I’ve learned over the past two years since my acceptance to Cornell. I applied for a student visa and traveled alone on a plane for the first time, set up and started managing my own bank account, signed my first housing contract with a landlord, got my first paid job, began to shop for groceries and cook regularly — the list could go on. I thought that achieving such milestones allowed me to become one step closer to adulthood, that I had done a pretty good job of making it through these rites of passage. I was completely wrong. One thing that I had discarded was a sense of concern for safety.