Multiple nighttime home burglaries reported in Palo Alto; 2 interrupted by residents

Police in Palo Alto were looking for suspects in a series of home burglaries on Monday night, including two that were interrupted by residents.

The Palo Alto Police Department said in a press release Tuesday that dispatchers received a call at about 9:26 p.m. Monday from a woman reporting a burglary at her home on Nelson Drive, south of E. Charleston Road and west of Middlefield Road. The resident, in her 30s, said she heard a gate to her backyard open and saw two masked intruders enter her yard with flashlights, and they later smashed the rear glass door to the home, police said.

Officers arrived to find two subjects entering a dark-colored vehicle, which officers attempted to stop, but the vehicle fled at a high rate of speed, police said. It was not immediately known if anything was