You’re not even safe from crime in Canada anymore.
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City police have charged a man after a break-in at a seniors' complex in southwest Calgary.
CALGARY - After months of repeated break-ins at a group of inner-city seniors homes, a suspect is finally in custody, but not before it reached a new level of aggression Monday night.
In the middle of Monday night, a stranger opened up the door to Dorothy Major’s suite at Grace Monor and walked on in.
“What do you want?” the 90-year-old asked him, and the answer was that he wanted her cash.
“He followed me into my bedroom and he took whatever was in my purse,” she told Postmedia the next day.
“I thought if I give him money — what he wanted — then I’d be safe. I thought if I didn’t let him have any money then probably he’d attack me.”
Major said he didn’t “turn nasty” on her.
“He just took my money and then I didn’t have any to go for groceries with today ... he left me broke.”
After he left, Major made herself a strong cup of tea, trying not to think about the fact she’d just been robbed for the first time in her life at 90 years old.
It was the first time she met him, but others say they’re familiar with him.
Gracewood Housing Group’s chief administrative officer Doug Sutherland said it’s been going on for months now.
Sometimes he just presses buttons on the outside intercom until somebody buzzes him in.
On other occasions he’ll wait around and sneak in behind someone who’s opened the door.
Monday he chucked a rock through the solarium window instead.
“We’ve been vigilant trying to get hold of the guy and working with the police for several weeks now,” Sutherland said.
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