TOPSHAM
Police are looking for two male subjects found rummaging through an elderly woman’s home early Thursday.
Topsham police Lt. Fred Dunn said officers Michael Laurence and Bruce Swanson were called to a home on Bridge Street at 2:53 a.m. Thursday after a woman. apparently awakened by noise, entered the main living area of her home and saw two men.
“When she confronted them, they fled the residence in an unknown direction,” Dunn said.
Cpl. Ian Alexander from the Sagadahoc County Sheriff ’s Department responded with canine Brix to track the suspects, who may have crossed into Brunswick over the Swinging Bridge, Dunn said.
A sheriff ’s deputy and the Brunswick Police Department also assisted in the search for the suspects, who were described as of slim build, 6 feet or a little taller, wearing black hooded sweatshirts.
Dunn said the woman was not injured. Some items were handled but it appears the unwanted visitors didn’t have time to take anything.
Dunn said there have been other break-ins in the Bridge Street area recently, most during the day when no one is home. Police are unsure if those incidents are related to this one.
The woman had reported a prior burglary to police on May 15, when someone forced their way through a window screen while she was sleeping at around 9:30 a.m.
The perpetrators in that case stole medication and some items from her wallet, Dunn said.
Dunn said police don’t know who committed that burglary. He didn’t know if the two incidents are related, but said it is possible.
Anyone with information can call Topsham police at 725-4337 and talk to Detective Mark LaFountain.
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