A 30-year-old man in a trench coat broke into his back-fence neighbor's home in Fairfield, California — and identified himself as Harry Dresden, the fictional wizard-detective from Jim Butcher's urban fantasy series. The homeowner watched live on his Ring camera, drove back home, and fought him off with a snow shovel while his pregnant wife and young son hid in the garage. The case went viral, with clips crossing 14 million views on X and 2.8 million on YouTube. Here's what happened — and the detail that made the judge raise bail seven times over. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎥 New true crime & courtroom shorts every week. Subscribe for more cases that break the internet. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 Sources: KTVU Fox 2, NBC Bay Area, Fairfield Police Department official statements, Solano County Superior Court records. This video is for educational and commentary purposes. All facts are sourced from verified public reporting. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #shorts #truecrime #harrydresden #ringcamera #fairfield #homeinvasion #courtroom #viralvideo #truecrimecommunity #truecrimestory #criminalpsychology #ringcam #doorbellcam #viralnews #caseupdate

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