DARTMOUTH – Imagine being in your nineties and living alone.
You go to sleep one rainy evening and awake only to find someone has rummaged through your possessions and taken your money.
It’s a horrifying scenario, but it’s exactly what happened to a 97-year-old woman living on Celtic Drive in Dartmouth.
“It’s a very scary situation,” says Peggy Smith, a senior citizen living just down the block from where the robbery took place.
“Times are changing, years ago we didn’t even lock our doors,” she said.
Hugh Smith just moved into the neighbourhood across the street from the home. He says in his old neighbourhood “we got used to never locking our doors and it just became natural, but over here we are taking precautions to lock up a bit”.
Now, police are urging the public to speak up and join local Neighbourhood Watch communities in an attempt to catch the culprits.
“Do you know your city?” asks asks Neighbourhood Watch Chairman Bill Zebedee.
“Do you know your neighbours? do you know your neighbours phone numbers? you need to delve deep deep down into everything,” he said.
The break-in on Celtic Drive is the most recent following a string of several daylight robberies in the Woodlawn area of Dartmouth.
At this point police say there is insufficient evidence to conclude the robberies are related.
But, reports of suspicious males knocking on the doors of the houses being robbed is concerning and reporting it may provide some answers as to who has been committing these break-ins.
“If people feel that someone in their neighbourhood is acting suspiciously, call police and we will send an officer down to investigate, Halifax Regional Police Const. Pierre Bourdages said. “If it turns out to be nothing at least we know about it. We would rather people be calling us reporting what they see than not calling us at all.”
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