This Katy-area cat has been committing the purr-fect crimes

[TexasTowelie]

Cleo's owner says her four-legged companion has been stealing her neighbors' socks, yard gloves, bathing suits, t-shirts -- anything it can get their paws on.

KATY, Texas — A Katy-area cat has been committing the purr-fect crimes, and some of them have been caught on camera.

Cleo's owner says her four-legged companion has been stealing her neighbors' socks, yard gloves, bathing suits, t-shirts -- anything it can get their paws on.

“I want to apologize because some of the items he has brought home, a pair of women's shapewear, are kind of pricey,” said Jeanne Wheat.

It started innocently enough inside Wheat’s home, but then, Cleo started visiting the neighbors.

Read more and view the video of the black cat burglar at https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/katy-cat-burglar/285-b9c5a41f-9ec8-4f5b-8631-c6e11724f21f .

[scarletlib]

1. I like to think she is hunting. But in a non-lethal way.