Keller Williams Las Vegas agent Albie Vas acted rapidly on Tuesday when he spied a housebreaking in progress at one in every of his listings. “I was like, ‘I’ve got bad news. Your house is actively getting robbed.’”
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Keller Williams agent Albie Vas
That was the case with Albie Vas, an agent with Keller Williams Las Vegas, whose fortunate timing Tuesday afternoon had him in the proper place to intervene in an lively housebreaking at one in every of his Nevada listings this week.
Vas instructed Inman a separate consumer on one in every of his luxurious listings close to Las Vegas had left the lights on inside the house earlier than an earlier exhibiting, saving what he estimated to be six minutes as he went to a different itemizing. That gave him sufficient time to cease by a vacant house in Spring Valley — a city roughly two miles west of the Las Vegas strip —round 11 a.m. Tuesday, so as to refill his consumer’s pool.
Whereas within the yard, Vas mentioned he observed one thing amiss with two of the house’s three again doorways.
“I turned it off, pulled the hose out and I saw on the backdoor the weather stripping was on the floor,” Vas mentioned. “I was like, ‘That’s weird.’”
He checked the doorways they usually had been each nonetheless locked and secured, although they seemed like they’d been tampered with close to the deadbolt.
When he noticed the third door had additionally been broken, Vas mentioned he referred to as the Las Vegas police division’s non-emergency quantity and left to get one thing to eat whereas ready for a response, which he mentioned took an hour.
Las Vegas police responded to an lively housebreaking of a vacant itemizing in September 2024. Picture by Albie Vas
“I drive back and as I’m getting there — I’m driving slowly — I see this guy’s truck parked backwards in our driveway,” Vas mentioned. “This guy is sitting there trying to break in through the garage. I called 911. I said, ‘Hey this guy is actively breaking into my listing.’”
The pickup truck already had a fridge at the back of it when Vas referred to as the police. The suspect was inside shifting the fridge from the itemizing, trying to find a door large enough to slide it out of when the police arrived.
“The guy jets to the backyard, hops the fence,” Vas recalled. “An officer gets on the roof to get a better vantage point. The K9 had him in less than one minute. He was hiding in the shed of our yard.”
By then, a number of massive home equipment inside the house had been moved. The suspect had dragged the fridge by way of the home, eliminated door handles and hinges and squeezed the fridge all the way in which into the entrance yard.
Earlier than police arrived, Vas alerted his consumer, who lives in Fiji.
“I was like, ‘I’ve got bad news. Your house is actively getting robbed,’” Vas mentioned. “The stove was moved. The dryer was moved. The fridge was outside in the front yard.”
The fuel firm needed to come by earlier than the police might examine the house to verify the range wasn’t actively leaking fuel after being tampered with, Vas mentioned.
Police arrested the suspect and found the truck he was driving was stolen about two weeks earlier. Vas was nonetheless on the itemizing when the truck’s proprietor confirmed as much as retrieve his car.
“He was about 65-70 years old. It didn’t look like he had a lot of means,” Vas mentioned. “When he saw his truck he started to cry and said he didn’t think he’d ever have it back. He said sometimes he’s homeless and that’s where he sleeps.”
Vas referred to as the reuniting a silver lining within the in any other case weird state of affairs. As for his consumer, she elevated his fee on account of his heroics.
“She said she’s going to give me an extra 0.5 percent,” Vas mentioned. “I said it’s my job. What would I do? I would have to leave that job unattended? No! I’m here to sell this house.”
