Neighborhoods alerted by aggressive, fake door-to-door salesman

HOUSTON – A Katy woman says a man posing as a salesman forced his way into her home on Friday night and wouldn’t leave.

“He greeted me by name,” she said. She asked us to conceal her identity because the incident has left her feeling uneasy and on edge.

The man knocked on her door around 7 p.m. Friday evening and claimed to work for an alarm company, but the family said it was his behavior that was alarming.

“He said he needed to replace our panel and needed to see our main box,” the woman said. “He pushed his way in the house and decided he was not going to leave. My husband came from the back and said ‘You need to leave, what are you doing here?’”

She told Channel 2 her husband had to grab the man by the arm and throw him out. They tried to get a license plate number off his car, but there wasn’t one.

He had an ID card with no photo on it and she said and the name didn’t match the name on his business card.

“The phone number on the business card was disconnected,” she said.

They called the police.

They said theirs was the third house in 30 minutes they had gotten a call about due to the same man knocking on doors.

The man has reportedly tried the same stunt in Westlake, Westlake Forest and the Sundown neighborhoods.

“This is happening in several neighborhoods around Greenhouse, Fry, Saums, in this area,” she said.

Her message to her neighbors:

“Be aware. Don’t open your door. Period.”