{"id":81492,"date":"2025-07-21T20:21:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T20:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/81492\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T20:21:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T20:21:16","slug":"man-with-long-history-of-burglaries-back-behind-bars-in-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/81492\/","title":{"rendered":"Man with long history of burglaries back behind bars in Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/778E100AF9B6062C20B46B57AB80853E.jpg\" alt=\"64-year-old serial burglar wanted for Houston-area break-ins\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-57dc2675=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/video\/1677107\" data-v-57dc2675=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">64-year-old serial burglar wanted for Houston-area break-ins<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-57dc2675=\"\">A man who has previously been sentenced to over 200 years in prison is now suspected of breaking into residences in Houston&#8217;s Heights and Montrose areas. FOX 26&#8217;s Randy Wallace spoke to officials and a burglary victim. (NOTE: This is from a previous report.)<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\"><strong>HOUSTON<\/strong> &#8211; A man with a long history of burglaries is back behind bars.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">According to the Harris County Pct. 1 Constable\u2019s Office, Steven Campbell, 64, was taken into custody thanks to a tip from the public.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Who is Steven Campbell?<\/strong>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753129276_125_serial-burglar.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">According to his criminal history, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/news\/houston-serial-burglar-wanted-montrose-heights-64-years-old\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steven Campbell<\/a> has been in and out of prison since 1977. It&#8217;s all for the same crime: burglary of a habitation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">&#8220;He&#8217;s a serial burglar,&#8221; Precinct 1 Constable Alan Rosen said last week, when Campbell was still at large. &#8220;That&#8217;s what he&#8217;s known for. All of his cases involve burglary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Court records say Campbell has been sentenced to prison for a total of 267 years.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">&#8220;This time, I really hope the system kinda keeps him a bit,&#8221; Rosen said last week. &#8220;The last stint that he did, he did 13 years in prison, got out, and started doing the same exact thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Campbell suspected in recent case<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">According to the constable\u2019s office, Campbell is accused of stealing a $5,000 bike in the Heights. The constable\u2019s office says detectives are also investigating his ties to a jewelry theft there and in Montrose.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> The information in this article comes from the Harris County Pct. 1 Constable&#8217;s\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/harris-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harris County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"64-year-old serial burglar wanted for Houston-area break-ins A man who has previously been sentenced to over 200 years&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":74312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[6082,6386,4345,50,358,3187,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-81492","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-harris-county","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114893087616576320","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}