A mother-son duo are facing charges after stealing thousands of dollars in cash and valuables from a neighbor's home on Thanksgiving Day.
Laurie Eddings, 50, and son Christopher Warren, 31, stole a key from the victim's daughter, Crystal Strain, to rob her parents who live across the street.
Strain told NBC Connecticut the criminals robbed her parents just hours after they shared a plate of Thanksgiving dinner with Eddings and Warren.
Eddings is unemployed and Strain's family apparently always lends help to their struggling neighbors.
"It's unbelievable," Strain's father, Christopher, who also called the police, said to NBC Connecticut. "I mean, you know, you're helping them out, bringing them to the store, back and forth, doctor's visits and stuff, and then to turn around and, you know, find your stuff in their house."
Eddings and Warren knew after dropping the food off the family was about to leave to go across town to celebrate the holiday with other family members.
The mother-son duo took that as the perfect opportunity to strike.
"I just dropped off a plate. I was like, 'How could you?'" Strain said to NBC Connecticut. "I couldn't believe it, as much as we've done for them and helped them out."
Strain saw Eddings and Warren go into her parents house and going through a safe where her parents keep their valuables. When she couldn't stom them she preceded to call her parents who then relayed the message to police.
When investigating officers arrived at the suspect's apartment they found a second safe that was stolen from the same neighbors at an earlier date, NBC Connecticut reported.
Warren and Eddings were both arrested and charged with third-degree burglary, third-degree larceny and conspiracy to commit both.
Additionally, Warren, who was on probation at the time of the crime, was additionally charged with third-degree criminal mischief and Eddings was requested to receive psychiatric and medical attention.
