Two people are in custody and a southeast Calgary family is reeling after their home was broken into as they slept unaware inside it this past weekend.
The family says the break-in happened around 1 a.m. on Sunday in the community of Douglasdale, on Douglas Woods Heights S.E.
They didn’t know they were the victims of a crime until a family member who had stayed at the home overnight was looking for their missing shoe.
“I opened the garage door, and her shoe was on the top step and we noticed then the garage door was half open and our Jeep was missing,” said Laurie Massick.
She said the alleged thieves smashed the window of their van that was parked outside and grabbed the garage door opener; using it to get inside the house.
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“While we were sleeping,” she says.
The family said amongst the stolen items was an Apple Macbook, thousands of dollars in gold …