There are a couple of things in play here. Yes we are having a wave of burglaries in the Villages around Pinellas Rd right now. I agree with others that it is likely the same party and they will eventually be caught. It should be noted that there is and has been a level of crime in the Villages. It is just that the developer kept this a secret through his owned media. Now we have independent media sources sprouting up, such as the new Villages News Website, that reports everything - good and bad. Bottom line is that the level of crime remains very low in the Villages. Considering we have over 50,000 homes and around 100 Thousand people, this is one of the safest communities around. However as the Villages grows and its notoriety increases, the number of incidents will naturally increase. People need to take reasonable precautions to protect themselves, just as they did before moving here. One other thing - the fact that someone is entering homes by merely kicking doors in does not say much for the quality of the doors installed by the Developer.
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