The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a burglary at a home in the 6900 block of Duckworth Lane in House Springs. Items worth about $455 were stolen during the incident, authorities reported.
A woman said her father had lived in the home but had died, and she was last at the house on July 2. She said she had locked the home when she left that day, according to the report.
She said one of the neighbors called her on July 10 to tell her the home had been burglarized. When she got to the home, she said the back door and a window were open and several items were missing, including a TV, an antique clock, a machete, jewelry, swords, pocketknives and Hot Wheels and Harley Davidson toys, the Sheriff’s Office reported.
Another neighbor reported seeing three men come out of the home with boxes and load them into a Buick passenger car at about 2:30 p.m. July 10. At the time, the men said they were friends with the man who had lived in the home, the report said.
Other neighbors said a man had been selling toys like those described missing from the house from the back of a vehicle. Deputies located that man, and he allegedly told them he was selling items he had acquired in an estate sale. The deputies did not find the man with any of the items reported stolen from the home on Duckworth Lane, according to the report.
As of July 14, none of the stolen items had been recovered, and no suspects had been identified, spokesman Grant Bissell said. Anyone with information about the incident should call the Sheriff’s Office at 636-797-5515.