Officers were advised by a female resident that two black males wearing bandanas broke the window of the front door. When officers asked to speak to her inside her residence, she told them they couldn’t speak inside even though it was roughly 40 degrees outside and raining, Qualters said.
She told officers the men came to her door and yelled three times for her to open it before hitting the window with a hammer.
One of the men then attempted to reach his hand through the broken window to open the door from the inside. She said her boyfriend was also at the residence at the time of the attempted burglary.
When officers asked to speak to him, the woman said she would retrieve him and requested for the officers to stay outside, Qualters said. Her boyfriend said he didn’t know what happened, but he heard a loud banging sound and someone yelling, “Open it up.”
The woman reportedly put a chain on the door to lock it and her boyfriend threw his body against the door from the inside the keep it shut, Qualters said.
When officers asked the man if the incident was drug-related, he looked at the ground and said he didn’t think so. He told officers he goes to California, where he smokes marijuana, but he said he doesn’t smoke it in Indiana because it’s illegal.
Eventually, the couple allowed officers inside their residence and the officers found several unused clear plastic baggies near a couch, as well as what could have been a blood smear on the door. DNA was collected for evidence.
The case is active.
Andy Wittry
