SUN CITY – It was a comfortable morning on Sept. 4 in Sun City’s Neighborhood 10. A resident was puttering in a garden plot near her front door.
It was about 10:45 a.m. Her garage door was open.
In her peripheral vision, she noticed a woman approaching her driveway. She stood up and turned around to greet her, but suddenly the woman was gone. Suspecting that the woman was in her garage or on the other side of her house, the resident went into her house through the garage.
Inside, she confronted a young, dark-haired woman wearing a denim shirt and dark pants.
“I heard my front door close, and she was at my front door, closing it,” said the resident, who asked that her name not be printed. “I asked her what she was doing in my house. She said she was a cleaning lady, and she denied she was in my house. We stood on my front stoop, yelling at each other, and I kept asking what she was doing in my house. I didn’t touch her, but I was so scared I wanted to make sure she got off my property. She kept repeating that she was a cleaning lady. She backed away, out to the street, and when she got there, a man drove up in a bright red compact car and stopped. The woman said, ‘This lady is crazy. Let’s get out [of] here,’ and they drove away fast.”
The resident called the police immediately. Nothing was stolen from her home, and she was not injured.
She was able to give police officers part of the car’s license plate, saying it started with “S20.”
The resident said she heard about a similar incident occurring in late August at a Sun City home on Illinois Drive in Neighborhood 4. In that event, an N.4 resident told the Sun Day that someone entered through an open front door and stole items while residents were in the backyard.
“This woman didn’t appear to be violent, but it was just so very scary.
At least two Huntley police investigators interviewed the resident Friday. They were not available for comment at press time.
