Police are still looking for a thief who plundered more than $35,000 in jewelry, antiques, cash and electronics from a Brookview Drive home.
The burglar forcibly entered Irina Astrom’s home through the basement door sometime between 8 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Monday.
Astrom declined an extended interview stating that the loss was a sad and emotional one for her.
No suspects have been named in the case, said Capt. Jeff Clark of the Chapel Hill Police Department.
Clark said the investigator assigned to the case is conducting follow-up interviews and checking different outlets for a sign of the missing items.
“It’s possible it could show up in a pawn shop, and it’s possible it could be sold on the street,” he said. “There are a number of different places where it could go.”
If stolen goods resurface in a pawn shop, they are sometimes recovered due to a state law requiring pawn shops to submit serial numbers to the police of all the items they buy.
Mike Hale, an employee at Affordable Jewelry and Pawn Inc. in Durham, said the staff sends in police reports containing serial numbers of the previous day’s sales every morning to help prevent the trading and selling of stolen goods.
“We do police reports everyday for everything that we buy because we don’t like those kinds of people,” Hale said.
