A brazen thief has allegedly knocked on the door of a home with people in residence, before breaking in to steal a phone.
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Around 9.30pm on Wyvern Crescent, people at home went to answer a knock at the door. Looking through and seeing someone they did not recognise, they didn't open it and he appeared to leave.
When they left the room they were in, it's alleged that someone broke through the window, took a phone that was sitting nearby, and then left.
The man who knocked at the door is described as being of a large build wearing a red hooded jumper.
More thefts and break and enters occurred over the week, one which left a car's tires slashed, and another with arrests made.
Over night on Saturday, a house on Sanders Street had glass on their front door smashed in, with another door forced open. While nothing appears to have been stolen, the driver's side tires of a car parked in the driveway were slashed.
On Saturday, an employee at a Griffith car wash opened up at 7am, leaving a handbag in the office. When she came back, they had been stolen.
Police have charged a 27-year-old female and a 23-year-old man with trespassing and stealing after they were caught on the CCTV cameras.
Elsewhere, a microwave and TV were stolen from a unit on Kookora Street anywhere from Friday and Wednesday.
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Gardening equipment including a self-propelled mower and a Honda Whipper Snipper were taken from a shed on Erskine Road between Saturday afternoon and 7am on Sunday.
Cash was stolen from a property on Twigg Road in Yenda sometime over the weekend, after a door was forced open.
If you have any information or notice anything of a suspicious nature, call Griffith Police Station on 6969 4299.
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