The Anaheim Police Department is on the lookout for suspects after a series of “distraction burglaries” have been impacting elderly Anaheim residents. In a similar scheme reproduced a number of times, a suspect will make contact with an elderly resident by posing as either a new neighbor or a utility worker and will convince the neighbor to step outside of their home. While the homeowner is distracted, a second suspect then sneaks into the house and will burglarize it and run off with what they stole. Anaheim resident Brent Kahlen told Fox 11 that a woman approached him pretending to be his new neighbor, and asked to go to his backyard to clean up some trees from “her yard.” “A woman came to the door [who was] very friendly. She said her grandparents bought the house behind me,” Kahlen said. “She said she wanted to get access to my yard …
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