An ex- burglar has revealed how she picked out the houses she stole from to help others protect their homes. Jen Jen Gomez spent 10 years in prison for her crimes and has since turned her life around. She now regularly goes viral on TikTok sharing stories about her former life of crime, hoping she can help others falling victim to crooks – or committing felonies themselves.
In a recently-resurfaced video, Gomez shared the "mental checklist" she would go through before breaking into a property in a bid to stop homeowners from becoming targets. "The first thing I would do is check the weather ," she began. "If it’s bright, beautiful, sunny, I really tried to find places that are more isolated, more desolate, where the houses are further apart, because people are outside.
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] They’re just paying attention a lot more. Gomez said rain, drizzle and fog were the "best of the best" for burglars. "In that type of weather condition, people are not only not outside, but they also aren’t going to chase you.
They’re not going to come outside just to be nosy because they think something looks weird and get all wet.” Secondly, Gomez explained how she planned when to strike. "The reason I was waking up at 5.
00am, 5.30am, to start getting things in order is because most people go to work between 7.00am and 4.
00pm," she continued. "The majority of people [..
.] will be out of the house by 8 o’clock." She then described the hours of 8am to 11am as "prime time" for breaking into h.