NBC15 WMTV | Madison, WI | News  CrimeTracker 15: Couple
startled by thieves  POSTED: Monday, September 30, 2013 --- 5:20
p.m.  Madison Police say there has been a string of burglaries
on the city's west side in the last week.  In the latest
incident happened on Holiday Drive. A husband and wife in their
40s were sitting in their living room when they heard three or
four loud bangs that shook their house. The husband checked on
this noise and saw three people running away. They had been
trying to kick in his garage door.  One of them, a heavyset
teen, was much slower than the others. He told the homeowner he
was not with the other two suspects, but kept on running.
Eventually a police dog tracked the suspects to the West
Transfer Point, but police did not find them.  There have been
two similar cases on the west side involving a similar pattern.
One was in the 5200 block of South Hill Drive on Thursday, the
other in the 5100 block of Juneau Road. In both those cases,
garage doors were kicked in and burglars g