Aspiring cop victim of home burglary

Montanique Sutton has always wanted to be a cop.

Now this 29-year-old Bauder College forensics major is getting a taste of what it feels like to be a victim.

Friday morning Sutton’s Allen Way home in Ellenwood was broken into. It was an incident she believes could have been avoided, especially after she thwarted what she believes to be an attempted burglary earlier this week.

Monday, the mother of three arrived home to find a green Honda Civic Coupe backed into her driveway.

“I could not understand why this car was in my driveway,” she told the AJC.

She fought her first instinct to block the car, “My mom and my kids were in the car,” she said. Instead she pulled up, spoke to a guy in the car, and eventually chased him and another man off who was at the back of her house.

“He said he was looking for a guy named Corey,” she said. “I told him no Corey lives here.”

Sutton dusted for fingerprints as she waited for police to arrive.  Police arrived, a walk-through was done, she handed over the fingerprints she found and told detectives she would email them the photos she took.

She did not expect that come Friday police would be back at her house on another burglary investigation.

Sutton was not gone more than 90 minutes when someone kicked her backdoor in and walked away with a 55-inch TV and a DVD combo player. And this time when she dusted for fingerprints, she found lots of them.

“They must have been in a hurry,” she said.

She has no idea what more could be missing from the house. She is too afraid to venture upstairs and by Friday evening, police had not completed the standard walk through to ensure all is clear, she alleges.