Two Texas women who excel at thieving from the grieving allegedly stole $50,000 worth of goods from a woman’s home while she attended her mom’s funeral.
Adrianne Hart, 31, and Sage Grider, 29, broke into the Houston home of Caryn Papantonakis while she was at the service with her two children last Tuesday, according to KTRK-TV.
While Papantonakis was at her mother’s funeral, the duo allegedly stole jewelry, silver, car keys and even the children’s school backpacks and Christmas stockings while ransacking the home, the report said.
Papantonakis estimated the value of the stolen goods at $50,000.
“It is such a violation,” she told the ABC affiliate.
Hart and Sage had previously been arrested in 2020 for stealing a car during its owner’s funeral.
Career criminal Adrianne Hart was charged with burglary in connection
with the heartless alleged crime. Memorial Villages Police Department
Cohort Sage Grider was also charged and ordered to stay away from Hart. Memorial Villages Police DepartmentWhen police found the car, it was reportedly full of other stolen goods and contained a list of recently deceased people and their family members.
Officials were also reportedly able to connect them to the recent stolen car of a 97-year-old woman.
Papantonakis first realized she was being targeted when her son saw a feed of the home’s home surveillance system and noticed the intruders, who had been inside the house for more than a half-hour.
Cops caught up with the suspects by tracking stolen AirPods to the apartment they shared, according to the report.
Once there, they found other stolen goods and located additional stolen property at nearby pawn shops.
Caryn Papantonakis’ house was allegedly robbed by the disgraceful duo while she buried her mother. ABC13
The burglary was caught on home security footage. ABC13Hart and Grider were still on probation from the 2020 offense. They were ordered to stay away from each other until their new burglary charges played out, and were held on $105,000 bond each.
Papantonakis, who did not immediately return a request for comment from The Post, attended their Monday court date.
“Just seeing them today and knowing that they were going through all of our things and that they were in my children’s rooms, it was emotional,” she told the station.
The family intends to start a foundation named after their late mother and grandmother that would provide house-sitters for the recently bereaved during funeral services.
