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Originally Posted by sodascouts

Yikes. I certainly hope that the Buckinghams weren't forced to give up a magnificent house they spent years building and customizing as well as a property Lindsey has owned for 20 years because of a spate of burglaries. That would be a real shame.

If that is the case, I imagine selling it for $21 mill is a bad idea. Who would want to pay that much for a house in a bad neighborhood? lol

From the article: "The police told me that our ring like to hit houses on weekend nights between seven and eight," recounts the wife of a major Hollywood producer, whose Benedict Canyon house was burgled last February as the trend grew more apparent. "It happened to us on a Saturday night at 8:07."
The producer's wife feels sure the thieves knew that the housekeepr was off on Saturday nights and that the house would be empty. Brazenly, they threw a large lawn sculpture through the living room window, ran up to the master bedroom and stuffed as much jewelry as they could into a pillowcase.
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The fence had a pawnshop on Western Avenue. The Beverly Hills police had swooped down on it with a search warrant, then gone to the fence's house, where they found his wife wearing some of the jewelry just stolen.
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Interestingly, the fence's wife worked in the real-estate field, for a title-escrow compan. The producer's house had been on the market for a year. Was this, perhaps, the conduit of inside information for this particular Cuban Crew?
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Some of the victims have quietly sold their houses and moved to other neighborhoods, hoping thieves won't follow them there. At least one victim, Loree Rodkin, has decided that a house in the hills now is too scary a proposition. Instead, she's bought an apartment in a highly secure high-rise building."