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Intruder Enters Home and Tidies Up -- Nothing Stolen

August 14th, 2017 • Health & Medicine • 2 minute read
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Author Sara E. Teller

Intruder Enters Home and Tidies Up -- Nothing Stolen

At first glance, it seemed to be everyone’s dream come true.  After a trip away from home, a man residing at 1500 block of Clarendon Boulevard in Arlington, Virginia, returned to his apartment last week to discover it mysteriously cleaned.  The apartment was spotless and it appeared nothing was stolen.  Unfortunately, investigators still don’t know who they should -- ah, thank, for the good deed.  Or, rather arrest for home invasion.  As if the apartment was made spotless by fairies, there were no witnesses and police do not have a description of the suspect or suspects involved.  The man returned home around midnight.  Is it possible the entire maid visit occurred in the evening hours after everyone was in bed?

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The charges the unknown intruder faces for entering the home last week without the homeowner’s knowledge are unknown.  But, even if the person simply cleaned a few of the rooms and left, it’s still a crime that needs to be taken seriously.  Coming home to find his things had been rifled through is enough to make the homeowner feel uneasy and hesitant to leave again. And, appearances aren’t always what they seem.  Nowadays, when someone breaks into a home, even if it appears at first nothing was stolen, a homeowner still needs to be concerned about the stranger hijacking his or her digital fingerprint.  It just takes a few minutes to log into a computer and lift sensitive information.  Identity theft is a very serious crime.  The consequences can take some time to rectify.  Closer inspection could reveal the burglar was cleaning house in cyberspace as well.In any case, if sprucing up the apartment proves to be as serious a crime as cooking bacon, the burglar is looking at some time behind bars.

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Sara E. Teller

About Sara E. Teller

Sara is a credited freelance writer, editor, contributor, and essayist, as well as a novelist and poet with nearly twenty years of experience. A seasoned publishing professional, she's worked for newspapers, magazines and book publishers in content digitization, editorial, acquisitions and intellectual property. Sara has been an invited speaker at a Careers in Publishing & Authorship event at Michigan State University and a Reading and Writing Instructor at Sylvan Learning Center. She has an MBA degree with a concentration in Marketing and an MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, graduating with a 4.2/4.0 GPA. She is also a member of Chi Sigma Iota and a 2020 recipient of the Donald D. Davis scholarship recognizing social responsibility. Sara is certified in children's book writing, HTML coding and social media marketing. Her fifth book, PTSD: Healing from the Inside Out, was released in September 2019 and is available on Amazon. You can find her others books there, too, including Narcissistic Abuse: A Survival Guide, released in December 2017.

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