Dolores Catania revealed her residence was just lately damaged into whereas she and boyfriend Paul “Paulie” Connell had been out of city.
“Our home acquired damaged into final week … or two weeks in the past,” the Actual Housewives of New Jersey star, 54, stated throughout a Monday, October 6, look on SiriusXM’s Jeff Lewis Dwell. “They got here in with a blowtorch.”
Catania’s revelation was met with a sequence of gasps and shocked expressions from these within the studio earlier than she recalled the small print of the incident.
“We had been in Rhode Island, and as I informed you earlier than, I might be performing some cameos on the brand new [Real] Housewives of Rhode Island, and we had been filming,” she stated. “Paulie had his cellphone off, and he was performing for everybody there.”
Catania defined that she and Connell had been merely having fun with a enjoyable evening out collectively. Whereas having fun with their time away, Dolores seen Connell’s son was calling her. (Paulie shares two sons, Brooklyn and Kameron, with ex-wife Joanne Connell. Dolores, for her half, is mom to son Frankie and daughter Gabby with ex-husband Frank Catania.)
“My cellphone was going off and I noticed it was his son,” she stated. “I at all times reply for the youngsters, even when I’m in the midst of filming. He goes, ‘Is my dad there? The home simply acquired damaged into.’”
Whereas Paulie didn’t hear what his son informed Dolores at first, he may inform it was severe since she had a startled expression.
“I believed one thing occurred to certainly one of my children or any person’s youngster … however [the break-in] was fairly dangerous,” Paulie defined.
Neither of Dolores’s nor Paulie’s children had been residence on the time of the incident. Paulie’s son came upon as a result of the police contacted him to relay what occurred.
“Apparently, they got here in with a blowtorch. They broke the window,” Paulie stated. “They heated it so it wouldn’t set off the alarm. So it shatters with out setting off the alarm.”
Dolores shared that Paulie has the “most insane alarm system” put in at their residence that may shout at an “intruder” to “get out.” The truth star had some excellent news because the alleged burglars “didn’t take one factor” due to how shortly the police arrived on the scene.
“They had been inside the home for a couple of minute and one thing,” Paulie stated. “They [spent] eight minutes making an attempt to get in as a result of they used this torch as a result of the glass was tempered. So reasonably than smash the glass and set off the alarm, they warmth it.”
Whereas the burglars allegedly tried to bypass the alarm by heating the glass, their system was triggered because of the movement sensor inside the house. The system usually stays silent for the “first minute and a half” earlier than the alarm sounds and alerts the authorities.
Dolores then shared some recommendation to everybody to assist hold them from being a goal.
“I need everybody to know this. All of us like to submit once we’re out and away, Paulie posted that day we had been in Rhode Island … and that evening we acquired damaged into,” she mirrored..
Paulie teased that he’s not the one one who has accomplished that, as Dolores beforehand did the identical after they took a current journey to Brazil. When requested if Dolores retains her valuables tucked away in a protected, she issued one other warning to anybody contemplating breaking into the home.
“Don’t hassle breaking in our home,” she quipped.