Boy’s Piggy Bank Stolen in North Highlands Burglary

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — A 7-year-old is out of $300 after burglars broke into his family’s North Highlands condo and stole his piggy bank.

Nikita Moroz has spent three years working and cleaning around the house to save his money.

“I had to clean my room,” he said.

But Sunday his mother, Alla Istomin, got a call from detectives that teens broke into their condo. They busted through the front door.

Once inside, they took the family computer and iPod along with Nikita’s piggybank.
He’s saved more than 300 dollars.

“I didn’t feel good,” he said.

A neighbor saw the break-in and called the sheriff’s department.

Once they arrived, deputies caught one suspect inside. Another tried to make it out the window, but he was arrested too.

“They took all the valuable stuff, but it doesn’t even matter what they took from me,” his mother said. “The thing is, they took something from my kid.”

That something was more than just dollars and cents. Nikita was saving up, not for a new toy but a new life for his family.

“A new house,” he said.

“That’s his dream, he wants us to buy a bigger house in a different area,” his mother said.

The two suspects were arrested for burglary and conspiracy, but even with them in custody, deputies haven’t recovered the piggy bank.

Nikita just hopes that someone will see this story and help him get his piggy bank back.

Boys Piggy Bank Stolen in North Highlands Burglary

Yvonne Blake Horgeshimer

my son’s pinocchio head bank and his money were stolen when he was little too, it was from his gramma who couldn’t get him much but died when he was still a kid .that never made the news

gino

OK everyone listen up… CBS news Monday night told a story of a little kid who’s parents condo was broken into and robbers stole his money that he worked hard saving so someday he can buy his mom and dad a house. This kid is 7 years old and doesn’t deserve this. Sushi smackdown is going to replace his money and piggy bank and pay to fix the broken door. Mom and dad also lost computer and ipod. If you want to help call the news room at 916-374-1301 or call us at 855-864-7284 option 2. LETS TOGETHER SPREAD GOOD AND OVERCOME ALL THE BAD. For the next 48 hours all proceeds of ticket sales will go towards helping this family.
facebook.com/sushismackdown

Hank Danforth

The honest people have a right to be bitter about the way they are treated. The government does not care about you. I know. I have been bitter all my life at a system which is unfair and corrupt. I managed to survive without being squashed by the political crooks responsible for my misery.
Virginia

Very Positive and Love the post. It’s very sad what is happening all across the world. This one gesture is just a prime example of what we can do to make change! Gino God Bless You & All that contributed. Good Karma shall follow.

Sacramento Sheriff keep up the Good work!

Best Buy wreaks

Maybe it didn’t make the news because you didn’t call them! You sound awfully bitter. Counseling can help.

Japes Macfarland

Someone shared a story from their childhood and you attack them and call them mentally ill? (need counseling) Wow.
I just wanted to point out that you are a leftist. Conservatives rarely act as ugly and mean spirited as you guys on the Left. I guess you need to vent the hate else you’ll explode? ick.
Batman

BBW, Don’t be a jerkface. Japes, I share your reaction, but do you really know if “Best Buy” is a lefty? Don’t compound the problem and make a bad name for conservatives. If you’re Ms. Cleo and you can read minds, then I stand corrected.

david

parents should have opened a savings account for the boy or put the money in parents savings account. money can help gather interest and be protected from theft. a simple iou in the piggy bank would help the child know how much he has in the bank. the robbers were caught at the scene so there was no loss since items stolen had to still be on the robbers. seems the only item not recovered is the piggy bank. robbers almost always have a look out posted when they work in teams.
Take the burglars parents to small claims court.

Should have had money in a savings account. People who rent should have renters insurance to cover break’ins, Renters insurance is fairly inexpensive. If there is a fire, the landlord is not responsible for the renters property.
MomIsDumb

First, it is an apartment. There are no “Condos” in North HighLands! Two, someone tell this kid that to buy a house you need hundreds of thousands of Dollars, a full time job that pays atleast $100,000 a year, money to pay taxes, heat, garbage, insurance, etc. His $300 is nothing. How dumb is the mom for filling his head with this pipe dream. How about saving for college so he can get a good job to then buy a house. Also, where is Dad? I hate dumb people!

PowerPC

You are a complete jerk…….Hundreds of thousands of dollars???? Do you think the kid was planning on buying them a house next week. With children it is not always about the results but the thought that counts. If you had thought like this kid…..of somebody other than yourself maybe you would not be such a bitter venom spitter…..Guaranteed you are a liberal with that attitude. This mom is very smart….teaching her child to save, to be responsible, to think of others needs not just your own, and he obviously loves his mother. These are all things that I feel from reading your post that you were neglected of as a child. I feel sorry for you. You do not need to spread your s#$%ty life on everyone else so. And BTW, do you think the mother would actually force the child to use his money on a new house? The little boy wanted to do something for his family and you make the entire family sound like idiots. You are a major league jerk and need some professional help.

Antagonist

Something seems fishy here. The suspects were caught, in the act no less, and the police were unable to find this piggy bank? Maybe because there was no piggy bank? Most families are living paycheck to paycheck nowadays, but little Nikita is rollin’ with three large in a piggy bank? I don’t buy it.
Meems

Yvonne Blake Horgeshimer and pretty much the rest of you guys are just horrible people… No where does it say anything was recovered, maybe there is another suspect, the story is a little confusing. But to be so critical about a little boy who was saving money to help his family is just disgusting. Karma will seek you out one day.

Laura Cole

Yes,
I see how the story could be confusing. I’m the reporter Laura Cole and when I asked the Sheriff’s Department about the piggy bank, they didn’t know whether it had been recovered or not. Either way this seven year didn’t deserve it. It is also possible that there could have been someone else involved.
Sorry for the confusion. I was doing the best I could with th information I had.
Thanks for being a CBS 13 Viewer and have a great day.

Laura Cole
CBS 13 Reporter

Kim Caron

Nice of you to post this. People are so nasty in their comments, always bashing the writers and reporters or the victims themselves. The little boy did not deserve to have his piggy bank stolen and I’m happy that people are coming together to get him his money back. Anyway, you’re doing a great job, Laura, and thanks for the clarification!

Bob

Put me in an interrogation room with one of the suspects and a power drill. I’ll have the piggy bank’s location in about 30 seconds.

Carl Curmudgeon

Who needs a drill?

The piggy bank is at the corner pawn shop where it was exchanged for three piercings and a Michael Jackson tattoo…

Life’s lesson

I know it is sad that the child lost all that money to thieves but this kind of stuff happens everyday to children and they don’t make the news either. I hope his money is recovered but it would be wiser to put the money in the bank next time. Thieves don’t care who they hurt, even if it is a 7 year old boy,

krp

Yeah, just wait until he gets old enough to learn about the IRS. Then he’kl really know how thieves operate.

legit?

If this is true I feel bad for the boy, but what if the parents came up with a sappy story in hopes people would open their hearts and wallets and start donating money. I have no doubt that the house was robbed, but what if there was no piggy bank, or the piggy bank wasn’t quite $300. I am sorry to sound so skeptical, but it makes no sense that parents would allow a child to keep that kind of money in a piggy bank, and not a savings account. likewise why was everything else recovered but the piggy bank?

sara

My thoughts exactly.

mark

guess the color of the robbers

Batman

Magenta?

No, wait.

Chartreuse?

Paul Lundwall

I would pay to see this kid to sue these two crook on the Peoples Court Just to see the cute judge go off on them!
Carl Curmudgeon

Parents: Pay attention…

When this boy is 27 no one will pay him to put out his own garbage or mow his own lawn.

What are you teaching your children when you bribe them to clean their rooms?

It’s the cost you pay to play, baby! You do it because it’s right, not because Mom and Dad want to show you how the shakedown operates.

THINK, parents…

krp

Did you not read the story? He said that he was saving the money to buy a house for the whole family. So if the story is true, he’s taking money from Daddy and saving it to buy Mommy and Daddy a house. He’s not really gaining anything, because Daddy could just take the same money and put it in a savings account for the same purpose.

But he is learning work ethic, I suppose.

The whole “Because I said so” never seemed to me a viable argument. That’s why I never wanted to have kids because I refuse to let myself say that myself.

John McAlexander

So now Obama and the democrats are going straight to the source of the money and taking it themselves – what is news about this?
MAC49

Three hundred dollars? come on, a little kid likes to see his money don’t give it to someone else even if it is a bank. My grandchildren have money in their bank ands each one is a lot more than that, when my daughter takes it to the bank, it is when they do not know it. but she does leave a hundred or so in there so they can see they have money. last time my daughter took 680.00 from one of their banks. If they would have known they would be upset. They just see it, they don’t count it, they are too small. Sad that people are so self serving that they have to steal. And its not going to get better, people think everyone owes them.

Sam

What is your daughters address?

MAC49

Thats why she has an alarm a meat eating dog inside and outside and a gun with a laser on it so she don’t miss. And she a pretty good shot, By the way.

Chad

That ain’t nothin! Obama and the congressional democrats stole all our kids futures by expanding government and raising taxes for generations to come.
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kikiwackenputz

Si se puede!
LarryE

“They BUSTED through the front door”? What kind of illiterate Yahoos write this stuff?
Marot

This is the reason wealthy people elect to reside inside gated communities far away from the animals roaming for goodies.
rex dart eskimo spy

Why can’t the burglars be killed and have their bodies rendered? I’m sure they could be recycled into at least $.50 cents worth of pig feed and Elmer’s glue for a kindergarten class.
krp

Burglars today, the taxman tomorrow. You’ll have to learn sometime kid.
Ken Courington

Either the piggy bank was recovered or it was never there to begin with. Im not callin anyone a liar, but their was no third suspect and the theives never left and came back. Or did they?.?.?
http://weirdcrime.net/2011/10/23/sunday-crime-showdown-23-oct-2011/ Sunday Crime Showdown 23 Oct 2011

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that family is russian..