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Children hide upstairs during tense break-in on Rutherford Drive, West Lafayette IN

Burglary

Reported: 11/28/2025 11:38 AM

Rutherford Dr, West Lafayette, IN 47906

Children hide upstairs inside a home during a possible residential break-in on Rutherford Drive with footsteps and doors opening sparking immediate alarm.

Audio|Source: Tippecanoe County Law Enforcement

02:35

Transcript:

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56 and 31 possible residential entry in progress.

00:05

Near Rutherford Drive.

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Caller is not home, advising her kids are home, they're hiding in a bedroom upstairs.

00:13

They hear doors open and closing and footsteps in the house.

00:17

Great.

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33, I'm coming from Kansas.

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But mom's en route home,

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driving a black Chevy.

00:29

Nice tonight.

00:34

Clear, none.

00:36

26,

00:37

8. I think you guys are headed a new call, but can you give me a call?

00:46

33.

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33.

00:53

Where's that house relocated at on Rutherford?

00:57

I'm going to be coming in from the south end.

01:00

If you're coming from the south, take the first left, you go all the way around the circle, it would be about the sixth house on the right.

01:11

Sound 3 for suspicious person, Kamanchi truck.

01:15

It's pretty much in the middle of the band.

01:22

It's for Kamanchi, you can have Channel 3.

01:25

Pretty 92, signal to myself.

01:28

72.

01:33

In a black Chevy Solarado, Pennsylvania plate, zebra Mary Young, H.E.107.

01:39

Z.M.E.107. It's going to be a Pennsylvania trunk plate.

01:46

Location stop will be going to get into gates.

01:49

Clear.

02:03

23, where's a home are at?

02:07

She's driving from the east side of town.

02:10

The back door's unsecure.

02:15

I'm in the back yard.

02:16

I'm in the backyard. Okay.

02:22

Someone's in the garage.

02:27

Just regardless of me right.

02:33

Come to the front door, I got it unlock.

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Rutherford Dr, West Lafayette, IN 47906

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