2 elderly women encounter burglars

Staff report

WARREN

Two elderly women had face-to-face encounters with burglars at their homes late Thursday and early Friday, one of them suffering a minor injury.

A 79-year-old Dodge Avenue Northwest woman awoke at 5:45 a.m. Friday to see a thin, young black male standing in the doorway to her bedroom.

She screamed at him to leave, and he assaulted her, leaving a minor injury above her left eye. She refused medical treatment.

The woman told police the young man ran down the hallway of her home after she fought back with him.

She then locked the bedroom door and left her house through a window and went to the neighbor’s house to call police, who were unable to locate the suspect.

The only item missing was a $20 bill from her purse, which was on the kitchen counter.

A 68-year-old woman living on Noctourne Avenue Northwest reported coming home at 4:17 p.m. Thursday to find a vehicle in her driveway and a white female inside. She asked the woman what she was doing, and the woman said she was “waiting for James.”

The woman walked around the back of her house and saw a man standing near the side of the garage near a door and items that belonged in her garage on a nearby chair.

The man grabbed the items — weed trimmers, a PlayStation console, games and controllers — and the victim grabbed them back and started screaming.

The man ran around to the front of the home and fled in the vehicle with the woman.