Dolores Catania revealed her house was lately damaged into whereas she and boyfriend Paul “Paulie” Connell have been out of city.
“Our home obtained damaged into final week … or two weeks in the past,” the Actual Housewives of New Jersey star, 54, mentioned throughout a Monday, October 6, look on SiriusXM’s Jeff Lewis Stay. “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 have been in Rhode Island, and as I informed you earlier than, I’d be doing a little cameos on the brand new [Real] Housewives of Rhode Island, and we have been filming,” she mentioned. “Paulie had his telephone off, and he was performing for everybody there.”
Catania defined that she and Connell have been merely having fun with a enjoyable night time out collectively. Whereas having fun with their time away, Dolores observed 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 telephone was going off and I noticed it was his son,” she mentioned. “I all the time reply for the children, even when I’m in the course of filming. He goes, ‘Is my dad there? The home simply obtained damaged into.’”
Whereas Paulie didn’t hear what his son informed Dolores at first, he might inform it was critical since she had a startled expression.
“I assumed one thing occurred to one in every of my children or any person’s youngster … however [the break-in] was fairly unhealthy,” Paulie defined.
Neither of Dolores’s nor Paulie’s children have been house on the time of the incident. Paulie’s son discovered 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 mentioned. “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 house that can shout at an “intruder” to “get out.” The fact star had some excellent news because the alleged burglars “didn’t take one factor” due to how rapidly the police arrived on the scene.
“They have been inside the home for a few minute and one thing,” Paulie mentioned. “They [spent] eight minutes attempting to get in as a result of they used this torch as a result of the glass was tempered. So somewhat 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 due to the movement sensor inside the house. The system sometimes 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 maintain them from being a goal.
“I would like everybody to know this. All of us like to submit once we’re out and away, Paulie posted that day we have been in Rhode Island … and that night time we obtained damaged into,” she mirrored..
Paulie teased that he’s not the one one who has finished 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 trouble breaking in our home,” she quipped.