Naperville (Illinois) Sun – “Man who burglarized Naperville home as owners slept sentenced to prison” – March 6^th, 2014:

A man who broke into a house in Naperville last summer and made off with jewelry, cash and a $25,000 sedan while the homeowners were sleeping has been sentenced to seven years in prison in that crime.

The arrest of St. Charles resident David J. Teafoe followed a weeks-long rash of burglaries in Naperville. An estimated 30 homes — occupied and unoccupied, locked and unlocked — were broken into between early August and September.

Naperville police arrested Teafoe on Oct. 9 in his apartment on the 100 block of North 15th Street in St. Charles. He was charged with a burglary police said occurred between 10:30 p.m. Sept. 6 and 6:30 a.m. Sept. 7 at a house on the 2000 block of Cobblebrook Lane, in the Cinnamon Creek neighborhood on Naperville’s southeast side.

A copy of a police report obtained by The Sun stated a married couple live in that house. The husband told police before he and his wife retired for the night, “all windows and doors, including the overhead garage door, were all closed and secured,” the report read.

The husband said he awoke the next morning, went downstairs and found a large, flat-screen television set and a laptop computer missing from the family room. He said he ran back upstairs and locked himself, his wife and their dog in a bedroom before calling 911.

Police found the overhead garage door open and the interior garage light on when they arrived at the scene, according to the report. Police theorized the burglar, later identified as Teafoe, got into the house using an electronic garage door opener left inside an unlocked vehicle parked outside of the home.