People Posing As Religious Group May Be Behind North Versailles Burglary
Big-Screen TVs Stolen After People Knocked On Door
POSTED: 5:36 pm EDT October 14, 2009?
UPDATED: 10:49 am EDT October 15, 2009
Wendy Nowading speaks with Channel 4 Action News reporter Sheldon Ingram
NORTH VERSAILLES, Pa. -- Burglars posing as a religious group may be the scheme behind a break-in at a North Versailles home.
Neighbors on Upper Hackman Road said they saw people who appeared to be Jehovah's Witnesses knocking on doors.
Then, two men dressed in suits showed up at one of the houses while no one was home. Police said 52- and 32-inch televisions were taken from that house, which belongs to Wendy Nowading.
"It's rather creepy," Nowading told Channel 4 Action News.
"The males were here," North Versailles Police Chief James Comunale said. "They were all dressed in better clothes, so one would assume they were all together. We know the males were at this house."
Police want to question nearby places of worship to see if they can help with the investigation.
"We would like to talk to whichever kingdom hall they came from," Comunale said. "I know there's a McKeesport branch and a Braddock branch."
Police said this incident came after a series of burglaries last month, but they do not believe there's any connection.