The burglars who targeted the home of Bobby Portis Jr. in West Allis, Wisconsin, didn't need sophisticated technology to know that the Milwaukee Bucks forward would be away on Nov. 2. All they had to do was look up the Bucks' game schedule. The hard part was figuring out how to get past any home security system Portis probably had installed, given that highly paid professional athletes are tops on the target list of criminal gangs these days.
Burglars going after the big stars are employing levels of technological sophistication far beyond the brutish smash-and-grab methods used in typical home invasions.