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CABAÑAS, November 15 (Moisés Leonardo Rodríguez Valdés,
Grupo Decoro / www.cubanet.org) - Thirteen thefts have been reported in the past
seven months in the small Havana province town of Quiebra Hacha, northwest of
the city and police so far have not been able to make any headway on the case.
The wily thief or thieves target the residents' TVs and VCRs; occasionally
they take music systems and fans, but there is a thread tying all the cases
together: the M. O.
The thieves break in through a window, do their shopping inside, and leave
through the front door, all while the occupants are sleeping, prompting a belief
among townspeople in some sort of "sleeping gas." All reports agree on
one point: the thieves have the courtesy -some say irony- of closing the door
behind themselves when they leave.
A few reports point to variations. In one case, they couldn't open the door
and backed out through the window taking the VCR and leaving the TV behind.
An elderly couple reported that they had the TV set chained to a steel table
and the VCR locked inside a metal box. One morning, they awoke to find the
chain and the metal box broken in a vacant lot near their home.
November 7, one woman gave a hue and cry, and awakened neighbors gave chase.
The thieves took nothing that time, but no one was able to identify them.
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