The Ombudsman’s office on Douglas Jones Street was burglarized over the weekend. A thief or thieves peeled open the burglar bar on window and pried open two louvers to get in. They stole the Lady Ombudsman Cynthia Pitts’s cell phone and a computer monitor and printer. Staffer at the office told us that since the break in they have stepped up security.

And burglars also struck just around the corner from that office at the Pink Nail and Hair Salon on Freetown Road. It happened between Friday and Saturday when they again pried open a window and stole assorted beauty equipment and supplies valued at over five thousand dollars. Police have reportedly recovered some of the items.