Real Housewives of New Jersey‘s Dolores Catania is a recent victim of a home break-in. Neither she nor her boyfriend, Paul ‘Paulie’ Connell, was in the house at the time.
Dolores and Paulie detailed the scary ordeal on Jeff Lewis Live, telling the former Flipping Out star they were away filming the Real Housewives of Rhode Island when their home was broken into.
The news:
“Paul had his phone off, and he was performing for everyone there. He was drinking tequila. And my phone was going off, and I saw it was his son. I always answer for the kids, even if I’m in the middle of filming. He goes, ‘Is my dad there? The house just got broken into.’”
Dolo’s “reaction scared the sh*t out of” Paulie because she typically doesn’t “get startled.” The situation “was pretty bad.”
Security:
Dolo explained that the intruders “came in with a blowtorch.” They used to heat a window and shatter the glass “without setting off the alarm.” Paulie added, “It’s a new thing that [intruders are] doing. [I] have a glass-break sensor that only goes off when the pitch is high, but when you heat it, it shatters without cracking and then you just push it through with your hand and walk in.”
The couple pointed out that their property has an “insane” security system that detects motion and immediately alerts law enforcement of the activity, all while staying silent for the first 90 seconds. After that, it shouts, “Intruder! Intruder!” Whoever broke in left immediately.
“By the time they left and the cops got there, it was 20 seconds. [The] intruders “were inside the house for about a minute and something” after spending “about eight minutes trying to get in.”
The two claimed the intruders wouldn’t have been able to steal anything noteworthy anyway because they don’t keep valuable items in their home, as “it’s not worth it.”
They got to see a video of the responding officers walking through the house “with their guns.” According to Paulie, the operation was “no joke.”
A Bling Ring-esque crime:
Dolores used the incident as an opportunity to encourage other public figures to keep their real-time whereabouts private.
“We all love to post when we’re out and we’re away.”
“Paul posted that day that we were in Rhode Island. That night, we got broken into.”
“First and last time,” vowed Paulie. “Lesson learned.”
