Crime & Safety

Intruder Frightens Young Women in East Greenwich Home

Four women were hanging out in a second-floor bedroom when they heard an intruder's footsteps downstairs.

Four young women hanging out in the second floor of a Signal Ridge Way house last week got the fright of a lifetime after they heard noises and realized a man had entered the house.

The women, ranging in age from 18 to 20, told police that they were upstairs in a bedroom hanging out at around midnight on Jan. 18 when they heard footsteps coming from the downstairs floor of the house.

The girls tried to activate an alarm, but it wouldn’t set because the front door was still open, according to a police report.

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The intruder, apparently aware that someone was home, fled and one of the females saw him run across the front lawn and driveway, jump into a dark colored SUV and speed off down the street.

The four women then went downstairs and saw the front door was ajar and the front hallway light was on, which “meant someone had come into the house,” the report stated.

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Police were called and officers searched the house and surrounding area and it was determined that nothing was taken or distrubed.

Police are investigating.

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