ARAPAHOE COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — An Arapahoe County couple was left making an attempt to determine why thieves would break into their residence and take 50 weapons, 3,000 rounds of ammo, a generator, an air compressor, instruments, a cannon secure crammed with extra weapons and a 2016 Ram pickup truck.
“It’s overwhelming what must be performed,” Kristen Fields stated.
She and her husband, Dwayne, are nonetheless shaken from discovering their residence ransacked after they arrived residence Saturday afternoon.
“Our storage door was opened. It was like, what occurred?” she stated. “Trash was everywhere.”
It didn’t take the couple lengthy to understand they’d been burglarized.
“I needed to vomit. I felt sick to my abdomen. You are feeling so violated,” Fields stated.
Heirloom weapons irreplaceable to housebreaking victims
The tire tracks from dragging the secure away from the constructing might nonetheless be seen 5 days after the incident.
“The weapons within the secure are household heirlooms handed down from his grandfather and father,” Fields stated, “so plenty of them we didn’t have serial numbers on, however they’re irreplaceable. We simply bought again from searching, so all our searching gear, searching rifles, had been in that secure.”
With every thing that was taken from the house, the couple believes a number of folks had been concerned within the housebreaking. They are saying the thieves pushed by means of a again window to get inside.
“They bought all of the spare keys to our autos, so meaning they may probably come again. So you may now not really feel secure in your individual residence,” Fields stated.
The couple has been residing off East Freeway 30 for almost three many years.
“We by no means had a cause to place up safety or video cameras in 30 years. You wouldn’t assume one thing like that’s going to occur,” she stated.
Her largest worry is what might occur subsequent.
“What if one in every of our weapons is utilized in a criminal offense? Good folks aren’t going to purchase these weapons. We do our background checks once we buy, however these weapons which might be out now received’t undergo it,” she stated.
Have you ever seen this truck?
Arapahoe County Sheriff’s investigators are asking for the general public’s assist in discovering the property.
Here’s a look a the truck. It’s a white 2016 Ram 5500 with a 12-foot flatbed and a license plate of DLM406.
In the meantime, Fields stated to keep away from this from occurring to you, don’t put your spare keys on a key hanger. As an alternative, discover a extra discreet place so it received’t be simple for thieves to seek out.
