Asst. District Attorney Butler says "Zone 4 Burglaries are Down and one Woman Stops Thieves"

Zone 4 Assistant DA, JaDawnya Butler recently informed residents at a local NPU-T meeting about efforts her office has done during the month of July.

Specifically ADA Butler said that burglaries continue to be down during the month, and that she credits the lower numbers to her offices crack-down on "repeat offenders," and getting those people off of our streets.

Butler also shared a story of a resident that happened to be diligent in her neighborhood, and when she saw suspects loading a neighbors belongings in a strange truck, she called police and even followed the suspects until police were able to stop them.  ADA Butler says this is the perfect example of the "See Something/Say Something" campaign that law enforcement is pushing.

In closing, residents learned briefly about new ways communities are becoming safer.  ADA Butler is actually starting to ban individuals from certain zones where they have become a nuisance, so that they can no longer perform crimes on the same neighborhoods over and over.  We will have to see how this initiative works out in the future and whether or not these offenders have stayed away.