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DEL MAR, Calif. (KGTV) – A Del Mar couple is warning others after a terrifying home invasion attempt Saturday evening.<\/p>\n
Mark and Teri Kohn were watching television in the living room of their home on D Antibes Street, north of Del Mar Heights Road.<\/p>\n
“All of a sudden the power goes out and my husband tells me another SDG&E power outage. I said no Mark, ours is the only house with the lights off so my mind is racing. Let’s see up and we see a flashlight someone walking. with a flashlight thinking of you, it’s dark,” Teri said.<\/p>\n
“My husband was like, ‘Wow, SDG&E actually answered,’ I said that’s not SDG&E, that’s somebody coming to our house!” Teri said.<\/p>\n
That’s when her ninety-pound German shepherd realized what was going on.<\/p>\n
“He went to the patio door, so my husband is screaming, he walks away from our property and then he starts barking,” Teri said.<\/p>\n
The intruder ran away to a waiting truck or van parked in the street.<\/p>\n
“It was simple, they just lift the lid of the utility box and there’s just a big breaker that you just touch and it shuts off all the power, including the security cameras,” Mark said.<\/p>\n
The couple has lived in the Mar area for more than thirty years. Crime has not been a problem.<\/p>\n
“The first one was shocked by the whole thing. She was terrified to go to sleep that night, but then she got angry, it’s like she was raped,” Mark said.<\/p>\n
The pair now have a padlock on their circuit box.<\/p>\n
“What I’m struggling with is how they got to the yard, if we were to go outside, you’d see there’s a wall on the perimeter of the yard and there’s a door,” Mark said.<\/p>\n
San Diego police and the sheriff’s department are investigating whether cutting power is a new tactic they’re seeing in violations.<\/p>\n
The couple had been out of town the previous week, so it’s possible the intruder thought the house was empty.<\/p>\n
“We never really thought about anything like that, but now you go to sleep at night and you think to yourself, what’s the chance of something unpleasant happening, not a comfortable feeling,” Mark said.<\/p>\n