My household just got the burglar event trigger (not by cheats and not using the lot challenge), and to my surprise, the sim that showed up is some randomly generated NPC, not Robin Banks (who I was ...
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The same thing happened when my household received the burglar event notification for the first time. It was somewhat a major letdown for me because last week's patch arrived during an approx. 4 1/2 day power/phone outage in my RL neighborhood.