Police: 2 incidents targeting elderly victims possibly linked

Published June 28, 2012 4:00am ET



D.C. police are seeking information about two possibly related burglaries targeting elderly victims in which the suspect pretended to be a maintenance worker.

In both incidents, the suspect knocked on the victims’ doors and said he was a maintenance worker who needed to fix a toilet that was leaking to the apartment below. After going to the victims’ bathrooms and surveying their toilets, the suspect assaulted the victims and stole personal property, police said.

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