Serial Northeast burglary suspects' 'sophisticated' tactics: 4 ways to protect your home

Home information experts show Fox News Digital that due landscaping, a reserved societal media beingness and hardwired siren systems are among nan steps that Americans tin return to champion prevent themselves from being burglarized arsenic specifications look astir an alleged serial burglary ringing that swiped much than $4 cardinal successful jewelry and valuables from dozens of properties successful nan Northeast.

Massachusetts State Police precocious announced that 4 Rhode Island men pinch connections to a "violent Providence-based gang" have been charged for their alleged roles successful "43 burglaries and break-ins crossed 25 towns successful Massachusetts betwixt 2018 and 2024."

Investigators said nan mostly of homes targeted "were persons of Indian aliases South Asian heritage" arsenic nan suspects allegedly operated "on a belief that their households were much apt to incorporate precious metals, jewelry and different valuable heirlooms."

"Property reported stolen... included galore pieces of diamonds and different gems and studded jewelry pinch values of individual pieces up to astir $75,000; golden bracelets, necklaces and earrings and ample quantities of cash," nan Massachusetts State Police said. "In respective instances, nan spot had been secured successful locked safes, weighing up to 400 pounds, which nan perpetrators removed from nan residence on pinch nan stolen valuables. The aggregate reported worth of nan stolen spot exceeds $4 million." 

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Massachusetts State Police said much than $4 cardinal successful jewelry, rate and different valuables were stolen by nan Rhode Island-based burglary ringing betwixt 2018 and 2024. (Massachusetts State Police)

Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan called nan burglary ringing "very sophisticated" because they "were disciplined successful concealing their identity, avoiding alarms and minimizing compartment telephone usage before, during and aft nan breaks and utilizing Wi-Fi jammers." 

Home information experts show Fox News Digital that location are respective ways to forestall your location from being targeted by burglars, and it starts pinch its quality outside.

Proper landscaping

"Look astatine nan shrubs astir your home. What you effort not to person is shrubs that would obscure a model truthful that you could person group who sneak successful and get to a model and tin activity connected a model unobserved," said Michael Balboni, a erstwhile New York Homeland Security adviser. "If you locomotion astir your house, look wrong and spot what you tin spot from nan outside, you mightiness beryllium surprised."

Balboni added, "There are 4 Ds arsenic it comes to protecting a location ... it’s deter, detect, past hold – truthful you person clip to respond and constabulary tin respond – and past defeat."

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These 25 towns crossed Massachusetts were targeted by nan burglary ring. (Massachusetts State Police)

Hardwired siren system

Bill Daly, a erstwhile FBI investigator, told Fox News Digital connected Monday that erstwhile it comes to location siren systems: "If you are conscionable relying connected cellphone connection to nonstop your alarm, that could beryllium taxable to immoderate type of jamming aliases interference."

"So, having immoderate type of a monitored alarm, hard-wired alarm, whether it’s done your optical cablegram aliases your telephone strategy that could beryllium monitored by an extracurricular institution ... I deliberation is very important." 

He added that "a Wi-Fi jammer would fundamentally nullify your location router, truthful it would forestall communications aliases immoderate you person coming from a device."

Limited online profile

In general, Daly said it's champion to presume a debased floor plan "whether that is connected societal media, aliases master sites for illustration LinkedIn, aliases immoderate different publically disposable accusation that whitethorn indicate" personification is doing "well successful their business, that they are collectors of definite kinds of valuables – whether it's art, coins – aliases thing other to springiness an denotation that they could perchance beryllium a victim."

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Massachusetts State Police said nan suspects often targeted homes that were occupied by "persons of Indian aliases South Asian heritage." (Massachusetts State Police)

He besides said that erstwhile contractors are visiting for location maintenance, "[M]ake judge you don’t fto them cognize what valuables you whitethorn person around."

"It whitethorn not beryllium those group moving for nan contractors, but it could beryllium group who those workers cognize successful various communities ... who whitethorn beryllium looking to find targets," Daly told Fox News Digital.

Anchored safes

Regarding location safes, Daly said they should "be weighty capable and besides should beryllium anchored into immoderate type of a beam successful nan house, not to a drywall, not to immoderate benignant of flimsy location, but to a joist successful nan location aliases immoderate type of outer beam to nan home, truthful it would beryllium very difficult to break that." 

And alarms, he continued, tin beryllium attached to safes arsenic good to fto group cognize if they are being jarred aliases jostled open. 

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"There are a number of things that tin beryllium done to slow down [thieves], to alert authorities, alert yourself that thing is happening and forestall personification from stealing each your valuables," Daly said.

Fox News' Ashley Papa contributed to this report.