Thousands in Jewelry Stolen in Chain O Hills Road Home Burglary

A Colonia family came home Wednesday to find the steel door to their house broken in with what police think might have been a sledgehammer, and thousands of dollars in jewelry stolen in the burglary.

It wasn't a more usual mode of gaining entrance to a house. 

said the front door to the door was bent from the break-in, the door jamb broken from the impact that crashed in the door, and pieces of the deadbolt lock were strewn down the steps and into the driveway. The door had been hit so hard that the dead bolt lock broke and the doorknob on the door had smashed into the wall and broken the sheetrock.

Inside the house, police found that the master bedroom had been ransacked. The thieves had used the pillowcases from the bed to haul their stash.

The crooks took off with jewelry and watches that were on the dresser, but their biggest find was the most expensive pieces of jewelry taken from a safe in the bedroom.

Police said that homeowner said the safe wasn't locked.

The homeowner returned to the residence to discover the burglary at around 4:30 pm. The couple's son, police said, had left the home earlier that day, at around 10 am, and he was the last person to be at the house before the thieves hit.

Missing jewelry included wedding bands and engagements rings, gold watches and chains, gold religious jewelry, and a small bottle of the prescription drug Xanax.

The stolen items were estimated to be worth several thousand dollars. 

There have been no arrests in the case.