A Burglar Caught in the Act
Howard Dodd, caught ransacking a home on North L Street, is sentenced to up to 14 years in the state penitentiary.
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Howard Dodd, the young man who was arrested a few days ago on the charge of burglary, and who pleaded not guilty, reversed his plea yesterday before Judge Easterday and received a sentence of from one to 14 years in the state penitentiary. Dodd was in the act of ransacking the home of J. J. Anderson, 624 North L St., when surprised by a neighbor.
“Dodd was in the act of ransacking the home of J. J. Anderson... when surprised by a neighbor.”
The intersection of residential privacy and neighborhood surveillance remains a core civic tension in Tacoma, especially as property crime continues to be a primary source of neighborhood anxiety.
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