I feel so much safer today knowing that I have only a jar of loose change and a $29 Timex.

I too have $11,000 in cash laying around the house in drawers !

Here is another Greenville one:

2 doors smashed to loot apartment

Jewelry and electronics, valued at $4,650, were stolen Thursday from a woman's first-floor apartment in a building on Long Street in Jersey City, police reports said.

Officers saw "heavy damage" on both the building's door and the apartment's door, which were broken down sometime between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m., reports said. The victim said she was missing two white gold watches - worth $3,200 and $1,000 - as well as an iPod and an Xbox game console, police said.

PAUL KOEPP

Burglar takes $11G, jewelry

Saturday, January 19, 2008
By PAUL KOEPP
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

Jewelry and $11,000 in cash was stolen Thursday afternoon from a Winfield Avenue home in Jersey City, by a burglar who seemed to know just where to look, police reports said.

According to reports, someone slipped into a bedroom of the first-floor apartment near Columbia Park between 2 p.m. and 2:45 p.m. without leaving any signs of forced entry.

The burglar took $5,000 from a dresser drawer, $3,000 from a purse in another drawer, $2,000 from a night stand drawer, $1,000 from a briefcase, and gold jewelry from a cabinet, police said.

The victim said he suspected a former tenant of the building, because he said burglaries in the area were frequent when the man lived there and dropped off when he moved out, reports said.

PAUL KOEPP can be reached at (201) 217-2400