Despite the homeowners assertions that he didn’t know any of the perps, he is still being investigated for links to the perps because the police Sgt. has a prejudice that there must be some connection...
Yes, the cop wants to try to put across the notion that the homeowner was perhaps some kind of criminal himself. Of course, he’s doing so with no clue that he is slandering the man without cause. If I were the victime, I’d sue the crap out of his department for that.
The larger issue, though, is that the government doesn’t want us to know that they are doing such a crappy job of providing any kind of protection and/or security for the citizens that things like this can happen to anyone at any time. I would also think the fact of the Great Dane being there would preclude the perps having any knowledge of the situation inside the house. If they knew the guy had a dog of that size, would they have busted in to start with?
West Valley has had a lot of home invasion robberies lately. It has become the favorite way for drug dealers to rip each other off in the area. Not sure if that’s the case here or if gang-boy decided to try it out at a random house.
But they live in the same City, they must know each other. /s