Like Chiefs’ Travis Kelce, another athlete’s house was reportedly burglarized during game
Weeks after the homes of Chiefs stars Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce were burglarized, another pro athlete said his house was hit by thieves.
Milwaukee Bucks forward Bobby Portis shared a post on X saying there was a break-in at his home in River Hills, Wisconsin, while he was playing a game.
The same was true of Kelce’s Leawood home, which was reportedly burglarized during the Chiefs’ “Monday Night Football” win over the Saints on Oct. 7. That came a day after a break-in at Mahomes’ Loch Lloyd house.
“We are looking into all avenues, local and national, and are exploring what similarities there may be,” River Hills police told WLS-TV about the burglary at Portis’ home.
In September, Timberwolves guard Mike Conley’s home in Medina, Minnesota, was burglarized while he was at a Vikings game. Conley was one of three homeowners in Medina who was hit by thieves, Sports Illustrated reported.
Portis shared surveillance video of the burglary.
“The preliminary investigation indicates that all the residences were unoccupied at the time of the burglaries,” police told Sports Illustrated. “Access is believed to be gained by breaking out windows on the rear of the residences. In all three burglaries there was jewelry taken from the master bedroom areas.”
That’s similar to what happened with the burglary involving at least one of the Chiefs’ stars. Fox 4 reported a home minutes from Kelce’s residence was burglarized a day before the break-in at Mahomes’ mansion.
The Fox 4 story included video of the break-in.
“In the video, you see the moments thieves take over a Leawood home dressed in full hazmat suits,” Fox 4 reported. “In another stretch of the video, you see ... one of the two crooks lying in the grass, playing watch-out for the one on the inside doing damage after breaking a window to get in the home.”
That Fox 4 story said hundreds of thousands of dollars of jewelry were stolen.
Athletes targeted?
A TMZ story said the FBI was involved in the investigation of the burglaries at the Mahomes and Kelce homes.
Brad Garrett, a former FBI agent who works for ABC News, talked about the burglaries at the homes of pro athletes in a video on the network’s website.
“Their schedules were going to be published when they’re going to play a game, so it makes it easy when to go to the house,” Garrett said. “These high-profile folks are really ripe targets.”
Police in Orono, Minnesota, a city near where Conley’s home was broken into, said in a news release that “affluent neighborhoods are being targeted by one or more organized groups.
“It is believed the suspects are not choosing houses at random and are watching them carefully prior to burglarizing them.”
The burglaries of the houses of Chiefs players have put homeowners on edge.
“We’re told the gated community that Mahomes lives in also made some security moves,” TMZ reported, “in an effort to put its members’ minds at ease.”
