Burglar with Sweet Tooth? or Just Absent-Mindedness?

We'll probably never know whether some housebreaker was feeding a sweet tooth or a Westport, CT, homeowner is close to the absent-minded end of the alertness scale. Why, it's even possible that Santa visited a local home a couple of weeks early, didn't find the traditional milk and cookies, and so raided the residents' sweets...

...but the facts are that on December 13, Westport police responded to a non-emergency call from an unnamed resident who was worried that an intruder was in the house. It seems that the caller noticed, and we quote, "missing jellybeans" normally found in a jar. The PD dispatched a patrol officer to the house in response, and the officer checked the house for intruders. No unwelcome visitors were found, nor was anything missing other than the teeny treats.

Local wags wondered whether the responding officer seized the remainder of the jar as evidence... and when (and if) it would be returned.

In the interests of full disclosure, the Jelly Bean Fiend was not in Connecticut that week – at all.

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