AKRON, Ohio —
http://www.fox8.com/news/wjw-akron-clown-robbery-lt-txt,0,4350906.storyWhat do you do when a clown breaks into your home and takes your money, jewelry and car? If you're Jacqueline Cutright, 70, of Akron, you keep your sense of humor, especially when the crime goes down the way it did around 2:00 a.m. Saturday.
"This character in a clown mask threw open my bathroom door, I was on the commode, so it was kind of a surprise," Cutright laughed while reliving the story for Fox 8's Lorrie Taylor.
Police said the man behind the mask was Cory Buckley, 22, of Akron. He allegedly broke in through a basement window armed with a knife. Cutright said he ransacked the house and demanded her money and drugs.
"I said, 'Boy, did you break into the wrong house, a poor person lives here,'" Cutright joked.
Cutright said Buckley told her he wanted Oxycontin and cash. He took $28 from her purse and about $1,000 worth of costume jewelry. The elderly woman said she thought Buckley was going to take a small silver bracelet a friend had given her. Instead, she said, he read the inscription and returned it.
"The bracelet said, 'A mother holds her children's hands for a while but their hearts forever,' which I think is lovely, and when he read that he gave it back to me. That's when I thought, 'This man's not going to hurt me.'"
Buckley took off in Cutright's 1991 Ford Escort. According to a police report, he only made it to the end of the street. As police responded to Cutright's 911 call, they reported seeing Buckley roll her Ford Escort twice and crawl from the window. They said he confessed after his knife dropped from his pants pocket onto the pavement in front of them.
The 22-year-old is facing a long list of charges, including robbery with a deadly weapon, burglary with a deadly weapon, kidnapping and theft.
After his clownish behavior in her home, Cutright is wondering if she could have taken him herself.
"I thought about doing some ninja stuff to him but I thought, 'No, he's faster than I am,' so I more or less just sat there on the lid."
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