Atherton Police Investigate Two Burglaries Happening Less Than an Hour Apart
Atherton doesn’t make headlines often. It’s the kind of place where nights are calm, gates click shut, and you expect the world to stay outside. But last Saturday, that easy silence broke.
Just after dark, something felt off on the usually still streets — a noise where there shouldn’t be one, lights flickering on across lawns. Within an hour, police say, a pair of homes were suddenly at the center of a crime that rattled one of the Bay Area’s safest towns.
No one was hurt. Nothing dramatic like sirens filling the sky. Yet by the next morning, officers were moving door to door, asking questions, checking security footage, and trying to understand how quickly an ordinary evening turned tense…