Police Investigate Late Night Burglary of Occupied Home

Published on August 28, 2024

Palo Alto, CA – Police are investigating the burglary of an occupied home late Tuesday night.  There was no contact between the suspect and resident.  The suspect is unknown and at large.

On Tuesday, August 27, 2024, at about 10:40 p.m., our 24-hour dispatch center received a call reporting a burglary that had occurred at a residence on the 800 block of Barron Avenue.  The resident, a woman in her nineties, was asleep throughout the event, and was awakened after the fact by a telephone call from her alarm company inquiring about an alarm activation that had occurred at about 10:20 p.m.  The victim’s adult daughter, who lives nearby, was also notified by telephone of the alarm activation and went to her mother’s home to check on her welfare.  When the daughter arrived, she found the front door open and called police.

The investigation revealed that an unknown suspect had entered the home and rummaged through drawers in multiple rooms.  The victim reported that several pieces of jewelry were missing from her bedroom.  The suspect may have entered the home via an unlocked door. 

Detectives do not have any evidence connecting this case to the occupied residential burglary that occurred on the 800 block of University Avenue on July 27.  For details on that incident, see the news release we distributed at the time. That case is unsolved and remains open.

Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call our 24-hour dispatch center at (650) 329-2413.  Anonymous tips can be e-mailed to paloalto@tipnow.org or sent via text message or voice mail to (650) 383-8984.