2 homes robbed, valuables stolen

Two Bloomington houses were burglarized Monday night in unrelated incidents, Bloomington Police Department Capt. Joe Qualters said, reading from police reports.\nThe first report came at 3:48 p.m. Tuesday when a housesitter said the home for which the sitter was caring on the 1000 block of West Washington Street had been broken into overnight.\nOfficers reported that someone appeared to have forced entry through a dog door that had been nailed shut. A hammer was recovered at the scene.\nPolice located a suspect who claimed that he was hungry. An unknown amount of food was reported missing from the house.\nThe second report came to BPD after 5 p.m. Tuesday from a house on the 3700 block of South Fenway Place.\nThe complainant said a Toshiba laptop and a Hewlett-Packard laptop were stolen between 9:45 a.m. and 4:45 p.m.\nBPD currently has no suspects and is still investigating the second incident.