‘They got here in with a blowtorch’

Dolores Catania and Paul “Paulie” Connell’s New Jersey townhouse was just lately damaged into.

The “Actual Housewives of New Jersey” star and her boyfriend detailed the scary ordeal on “Jeff Lewis Dwell” Monday, saying the house invasion occurred whereas they had been up north filming just a few scenes for the inaugural season of Bravo’s “The Actual Housewives of Rhode Island.”

“Paul had his cellphone off, and he was performing for everybody there. He was ingesting tequila. And my cellphone was going off, and I noticed it was his son. I at all times reply for the children, even when I’m in the midst of filming,” Catania, 54, recalled.

“He goes, ‘Is my dad there? The home simply bought damaged into.’”

Connell admitted that his girlfriend’s “response scared the s–t out of” him as a result of she gasped loudly when she usually doesn’t “get startled.”

However the Eire-born entrepreneur acknowledged that the scenario “was fairly dangerous.”

Catania defined that intruders “got here in with a blowtorch,” which they used to warmth a window and shatter the glass “with out setting off the alarm.”

“It’s a brand new factor that [intruders are] doing,” Connell elaborated. “[I] have a glass-break sensor that solely goes off when the pitch is excessive, however while you warmth it, it shatters with out cracking and then you definitely simply push it via along with your hand and stroll in.”

The couple identified that their property has an “insane” safety system that detects movement and instantly alerts regulation enforcement of the exercise — whereas staying silent within the dwelling for the primary 90 seconds.

After that, it shouts, “Intruder! Intruder!” so whoever broke in left instantly.

“By the point they left and the cops bought there, it was 20 seconds,” Connell divulged, noting that the intruders “had been inside the home for a few minute and one thing” after spending “about eight minutes attempting to get in.”

The 2 claimed the intruders wouldn’t have been in a position to steal something noteworthy anyway as a result of they don’t preserve invaluable objects of their dwelling, as “it’s not value it.”

Catania advised Lewis they bought to see a video of the responding officers strolling via the home “with their weapons,” as Connell described the operation as “no joke.”

Catania used the incident as a PSA to encourage different celebrities to maintain their real-time whereabouts non-public.

“All of us like to put up once we’re out and we’re away. Paul posted that day that we had been in Rhode Island, and that night time, we bought damaged into,” she revealed, prompting Connell to vow, “First and final time. Lesson discovered.”