A man whose Nanawale Estates home has been burglarized twice during the current declared state of emergency because of lava took issue with police assertions that looting isn’t occurring in Puna. “My first response was anger,” Jordan Nelson said Friday. Nelson twice reported burglaries at his Plumeria Road home, on Sept. 27 and Oct. 8. “I know this stuff is happening,” he said. “To hear police say it’s not happening, I feel invalidated.” Police confirmed his reports. Nelson said he was finishing two years of construction work on the house with an eye toward selling it. “With the whole state of emergency and everything, we had the opportunity to go stay at my mom’s house,” he said. “That way, on the weekends, I could go and work on my house. It’s hard to work on a house you’re living in. So we packed up our stuff, our personal belongings, and we moved out. The next day, I went to get some more stuff and that very night we had left, we got robbed.” Nelson said the first time burglars hit his home, they pilfered solar panels, an Outback inverter, water pump, pressure tank, hot water heater and clothes washer and dryer. “They took a $12,000 solar system,” he said. “They climbed up on the roof and took the solar panels, six big 230-watt panels. It must have taken them some time; it had to be more than one person.” Subscribers follow the link for the full story.
Posted on: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 00:30:13 +0000
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