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Michael Mirne

Monday, December 24, 2012

Family Victimized by Burglary, Served with Eviction Notice

On Dec. 1, Damaris Medina took an overnight trip to Atlantic City. She came home to find her Collingswood apartment had been cleaned out—right down to the furnace.

A stunning apartment burglary left a Collingswood woman without Christmas and birthday presents for her daughter, heat and hot water for six days, and coincided with the delivery of an eviction notice from her landlord. Collingswood police say the theft occurred in the 200 block of Haddon Avenue sometime during the overnight hours of Dec. 1. Damaris Medina, who resides in the apartment with her 11-year-old daughter, was headed down to Atlantic City for an overnight trip. When the family returned home the next day, they discovered the door on the driveway side of their residence pried open, and called police. “I looked up the steps; my door was busted in,” Medina said. “Everything in my kitchen was all over the floor. The bags that I had …

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