CASTLE HILL, Maine — A local woman confronted three people who had broken into her home early Sunday morning.
Betty Ellis, 75, said she heard a loud bang at about 2 a.m. and went to investigate. “I jumped out of bed and ran out into the kitchen, and there were two people standing by my sink,” she recalled Sunday evening.
Ellis, who said she could not tell the sex of the individuals in the dark, told the pair to get out of her house. When she said that, a third person who had been standing behind her shoved her into the kitchen cupboards. The trio then fled the home she shares with her husband, Lloyd, 78.
“I was more angry than afraid,” Ellis said. While her arm was injured when she was pushed, she said she was more upset that the burglars had smashed her front door. “They hit it real hard. It was a noise like someone ran into your house or something exploded,” she said. There was glass all over the floor, Ellis noted.
This is not the first time the couple’s home has been targeted. Ellis said her home had been broken into “two or three times” in recent months, and money was stolen including rolled centennial quarters she had been saving. After the last break-in, she said she and her husband had barricaded all the back doors of their home hoping to prevent another break-in.
Trooper Todd Stetson along with Sgt. Brian Harris and Detective Dale Keegan and officers from the Aroostook County Sheriff’s Department and Presque Isle Police Department went to the home. The area was searched, but the burglars were not located. Harris said the department has several leads and recovered evidence from the scene that will be investigated.