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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I absolutely think you did the right thing.  Her story doesn’t add up and you should trust your gut.

Since your area has a lot of recent breakins, I’d consider reaching out to the police (non-emergency) and see if this fits a pattern.  I  might also suggest talking to the neighbors about it.  You might even want to reconsider a Ring or other camera system.  [/quote]

This, above, OP. Listen to this PP. Please contact your police non-emergency number today (don't wait, because you want to remember details) and tell them about this. Now I'll get replies snarking that "the cops don't care" blah blah but in my DC suburb, yeah, the cops would want to know about this if there were a rash of break-ins going around the neighborhood--which is exactly what you note has been happening. I know this from experience of a similar rash of burglaries our suburb had maybe a decade ago. Good police departments want all the information. Don't listen to naysayers telling you you were wrong, or saying not to inform the cops.

Also, the PP's post above is one of the very few, maybe the only one so far, that actually shows the PP read your entire post.

Folks, OP wrote this and these details matter:

[b]"We live in a city neighborhood but on a very quiet dead end....We are blocks away from encampments and large transit stops and in [i]an area with a lot of recent forced entry breakins[/i]."[/b]

Why on Earth [i]wouldn't[/i] OP be cautious and deny entry to a stranger, late at night, to her home that's set away from other homes and busier areas, at a time when there are "a lot of recent forced entry break-ins"? Of course OP was right.

I have a young adult DD and am very alert to young women who may be in trouble, drunk, with a guy who seems sketchy or whatever, but -- I would have done the same if I were in OP's shoes. In hindsight, just in case the girl was in trouble, OP could have told her to wait at the curb while OP phoned an Uber for her or whatever and watched her from the window until it came--but hindsight is always perfect 20/20 vision. OP was right to be so cautious. And her DH needs a talk about taking the break-ins seriously and behaving with more situational awareness. [/quote]

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