CATONSVILLE, Md. — Months before a series of home burglaries were reported in two separate counties this month, a homeowner in Catonsville said she spotted the same woman attempting the same crime at her house.

“I was more in shock. I grew up in this neighborhood and never expected something like that to happen,” Michelle Claiborne said. “I feel violated in a way.”

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In late May, Claiborne watched through her security cameras as the woman rang her front doorbell, and then made her way to the backyard where she put on medical gloves.

“I realized she's about to try to break into my house,” Claiborne recalls.

She called police and immediately came h

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