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2 More Encino Burglaries Follow Residents’ Meeting With Law Enforcement

ENCINO (CNS) – Just hours after Encino residents met with police and the district attorney about crime in the area, including multiple break-ins and the killings of two people who found a burglar in their home, two more break- ins took place in the San Fernando Valley enclave, police reported Tuesday.

Around 10:15 p.m. Monday, officers from the Los Angeles Police Department’s West Valley station responded to a report of a burglary in the 4500 block of Hayvenhurst Avenue, according to a department spokesman.

The person who reported the burglary told police their neighbor’s home was burglarized and the suspects, two males in black hoodies, had come to the caller’s property. By the time officers arrived, the suspects had fled in a black BMW, LAPD Officer Jeffrey Lee said.

About 10 minutes earlier, officers were dispatched to a possible burglary in the 4900 block of Enfield Avenue, Lee said. The person who called police said multiple suspect were seen inside a home on video surveillance, but a search of the property turned up nothing, so a burglary report was taken.

No suspect information was available in that case.

On Tuesday afternoon, Teddi Mellencamp — the daughter of singer- songwriter John Mellencamp and a cast member of “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” — wrote on Instagram that her home was one of the residences targeted by burglars Monday night.

“We are grateful that everyone is unharmed,” Mellencamp wrote. “While we are shaken, we are fortunate to have the latest in home security systems which scared off the intruders. Authorities were alerted and swiftly responded. We appreciate everyone’s heightened concern in light of recent criminal activities in our area, but we are safe.”

Mellencamp told ABC News that she shares the home with her estranged husband, Edwin Arroyave, and they were home with their children when the attempted break-in occurred. Mellencamp posted security video on Instagram showing three intruders entering the property.

A 22-year-old man was charged last week with murdering an “American Idol” music supervisor and her husband inside the couple’s upscale Encino home earlier this month.

Raymond Boodarian of Encino was charged with two counts of murder stemming from the deaths of Robin Kaye and her husband, Thomas Deluca, both 70, along with one count of residential burglary with a person present.

The murder charges include the special circumstance allegations of multiple murders and murder during the commission of a burglary, as well as firearm allegations. The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office will decide later whether to seek the death penalty against Boodarian.

Boodarian’s arraignment is scheduled for Aug. 20.

The victims’ bodies were found at about 2:30 p.m. July 14 in the 4700 block of White Oak Place, south of Ventura Boulevard, during a welfare check prompted by a call from an acquaintance who had not heard from the couple in several days, according to the LAPD. The victims were found inside the home with multiple gunshot wounds.

“In a matter of moments, this couple was senselessly killed in their own home as they returned from the grocery store,” District Attorney Nathan Hochman said in a statement shortly after the charges were filed. “This tragic shooting has shaken a Valley community and the notion that home should be our safe sanctuary. Our thoughts and prayers go out to their family and friends who are grieving this tremendous loss.”

Hochman was among the officials who attended a packed meeting Monday at the Encino Community Center with more than 200 residents concerned about crime in the area. Police have increased patrols in Encino in response to the recent spate of burglaries and the killings of Kaye and Deluca.

Hochman said at the meeting that the beloved couple were killed with their own gun.

LAPD Deputy Chief Marla Ciuffetelli told attendees that crime reduction efforts are working, but admitted the statistics “fall kind of flat” in light of the killings.

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