RFP Staff
♦ In a city fighting to stay above water in crime and suffering from no shortage of break-ins throughout Salisbury, 32-year old teacher assistant Sherita Washington felt heartbroken when she returned to her apartment at 10:15 p.m. Friday evening and found it ransacked. Missing from her apartment, in the Pine Hills Complex at 400 west 15th Street, were electronics valued at $1,825. Among the missing electronics were 2 TVs, a Nintendo game console, A DVD/CD player, a Hewlett Packard computer.
Washington, prior to the break-in, left her apartment to visit a Pine Hills neighbor at 9:45 p.m. and returned 30 minutes later, finding her door strangely unlocked. Besides her missing electronics, Washington saw that her bedroom dresser was ransacked. She had no idea about who might’ve invaded her apartment. There was no sign of any forced entry.
Police investigators questioned other renters living in the complex, but at this time lack leads.
If you have any information about this break-in, please call the Salisbury Police Department at 704-638-5333 or Salisbury-Rowan Crime Stoppers at 1-866-639-5245.
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