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Police calls: Pillowcase-toting bandit sighted in Ladera?

Original post made on Jun 2, 2015

Crime and accident reports from Portola Valley, West Menlo Park, Ladera and Menlo Park.

Read the full story here Web Link posted Tuesday, June 2, 2015, 11:20 AM

Comments

Posted by Yvonne Stent
a resident of Atherton: West Atherton
on Jun 2, 2015 at 3:04 pm

This pillow case story reminds me of the 'silver burglars' in Hillsborough in the 1970's and 1980's. When I lived there, we had a rash of burglaries whereby the burglars would break into houses all over town, and then take pillow cases from our linen closets and fill them full of silver from our dining rooms. This was a time when many of us were just beginning to use alarm systems on our homes. When the 'silver burglars' were apprehended, they turned out to be mainly drug addicts hoping to turn our silver pieces into ready cash to use to purchase PCP (Angel Dust) and other illegal drugs.