Crime & Safety

OC Home Burglarized While Family Was Out Trick-Or-Treating: Report

An Orange County family is speaking out after their home was burglarized on Halloween while they were out trick-or-treating.

ORANGE COUNTY, CA — An Orange County couple is speaking out after their house was burglarized on Halloween while they were trick-or-treating with their daughter, ABC 7 reported.

The incident was reported just before 9 p.m. Halloween night, according to the Garden Grove Police Department.

Peter Lee and Vicky Nguyen told ABC 7 that, to make matters worse, someone followed them form their home and flattened one of their tires to make sure they were unable to return to the home during the break-in.

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After discovering the flat tire, Nguyen said the couple received a call from their alarm company that their front door had just been breached. A call to a neighbor confirmed the worse, she said.

"And so our next-door neighbor looked at our house and said 'oh my God your home is being robbed or burglarized' and my heart just sank. I was like, oh my God, did they take our safe? Like, what's going on?" said Nguyen.

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