Everett mom confronts crowbar-wielding burglar

An Everett mom happened upon a man wielding a crowbar, robbing her home, and she didn’t back down.

“Mainly, my goal was to be as loud as possible and to make it clear that he was not welcome there and to make it really uncomfortable for him to stay,” Jennifer Barrett told KIRO Radio’s Dori Monson.

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Last Thursday, Barrett drove to a local coffee shop before taking her kids to school. She stopped back at home and found a car in her driveway. An unknown woman and a dog were inside the vehicle. Barrett locked her 2.5 and 4-year-olds and a 9-month-old inside her car and went into action.

“I asked her what she was doing, all the while taking pictures of her vehicle and her license plate,” Barrett said. “She started honking wildly, to get his attention; he was behind the home. I realized our gate was open. I walked to the side, and up he comes holding one of our large table saws and a crowbar. So I ask, ‘what are you doing? Get off our property.’ I pushed the saw down, and he took a swing at me with the crowbar. Thankfully, I was able to move and not get hit. Off he went to his car, I took more pictures, and he sped away.”

“He wasn’t all that rattled by me, he just went to his car,” she said. “… with how he reacted, clearly this wasn’t his first time and I was just a blip on the radar.”

The couple drove away, but it didn’t take long for police to track them down in a nearby neighborhood where they were up to the same activities. It turns out that the car and the dog were both stolen.

Hear Barrett tell her full story here.