Burglars target building sites, new builds – Gear worth $17,000 stolen

Burglars have been targeting newly completed Jack’s Point homes and construction sites nabbing spray painting equipment and paint worth nearly $17,000 recently, prompting Police to warn tradies and homeowners to beware.

Sergeant Tracy Haggart says tradies and owners of newly completed homes should be ramping up security and considering installing CCTV cameras to protect valuable gear after unknown people threw a rock through a ranchslider window to gain entry into a newly built Jack’s Point house last week. The burglars made off with a large paint spraying machine valued at $8000 and full 10L containers of paint valued at $2000. The house in a new subdivision in Little Owl Loop was unoccupied, and that burglary occurred between midday on Saturday, 11 April, and 8am on Monday, 13 April, Haggart says.

Burglars also entered a new Jack’s Point house under construction in Taurus Lane making off with a large Graco spray painting machine, worth $6500. That burglary occurred between 6pm on Friday, 10 April, and 10.52am on Saturday, 11 April.

Haggart is urging people to report any information about these burglaries and any suspicious behaviour around building sites to Police.

“Please lock away all tools and equipment and have everything clearly labelled so it can be easily identified,” she says.

Any information regarding these incidents or any suspicious behaviour around building sites should be reported to Police.