The FBI reports that a home burglary occurs every 16 seconds - and more than 90 percent of the time, the homes are empty.

Even though home burglaries are less common than they used to be, they still happen far too often.

Of 95 home burglaries in the two-month period, the police attributed 36 of them to the group, which they called Gypsies.

He was a criminal from an early age, focusing mainly on home burglaries.

Crime remains a problem in the area with an amount of drug-related crime, car and home burglary.

The country recorded 24,588 murders, 52,160 rapes, 249,375 home burglaries and 13,011 carjackings in 1997.

There are approximately 3.000 - 4.000 home burglaries and 7.000 - 8.000 car thefts in Slovakia each year.

In the detectives' office, a bulletin board lists 30 home burglaries committed in 1999.

With the increase in home burglaries and storm damage over recent years, it may be that domestic insurance rates are set to rise steeply.

In the spring, after a police foot chase, he'd been arrested and confessed to a home burglary in Massilon.