Crime spree rocks Douglas and sparks security warning
House Breaks
Households across Douglas Shire and surrounds have moved to warn others around home security with people taking to social media over the weekend to share details about property crimes.
The posts have prompted concern and anger across the community, with people suggesting many homes were broken into across the region over the weekend.
In the most confronting of incidents, a Mareeba woman has detailed a middle of the night hallway confrontation with thieves, claiming her home was broken into in the middle of the night overnight on Sunday.
“They took off with car keys to our vehicles and garage remotes. We run airport transfers in luxury vehicles, so now they have access to those,’’ the woman said.
“After my partner chased them off, they came back later and opened the garage with the remote and tried to get in again.
“These scum are not only messing with people’s personal lives and security, but also people’s livelihoods.
In Port Douglas, and shared on the Port Douglas Notice Board, vision of a likely offender having second thoughts about breaking into their home when they saw security cameras.
The incident was captured at 5.45am in the morning.
“Good that you had a camera.....it was almost 6am, there's usually people up and about by then,’’ a poster said in response.
“Somebody must have seen a grub cruising the neighbourhood in a hazchem outfit.’’
The claimed crime spree prompted calls for incidents to be reported to police, and some backlash from others on the notice board page.
“Cairns cops coming to Port hiding in the bushes, nearly daily RBTs, defect stations handing out fine after fine to locals while trying to claim it’s all for public safety,’’ says one commenter on the Port Douglas Notice Board.
“Yet whole mob come to our town last night broke into half the houses, stole tens of thousands of dollars in personal belongings and caused tens of thousands in damage and not to mention the trauma caused… but where are the police then? Get your priorities straight and stop some real crime eh.’’
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