Ray Allen is laying down the law, even if local police officers won’t. A group of local teens broke into the NBA superstar’s Coral Gables, FL home earlier in August, but no charges have been levied against them, and that has Allen pretty peeved.

Claiming they only wanted to “check out the inside of the house,” and did not intend to break or steal anything, the teens are sticking with the story of relatively innocent curiosity. But Allen isn’t buying it. He would like the police to take the matter more seriously, and his family has issued a statement about the issue:

“We want to correct the erroneous information being reported about the crime committed in our home this week. On Thursday morning at 2:30 a.m., my wife Shannon was awakened by loud voices in our bedroom where she had been sleeping with our four young children.

“She heard male voices loudly discussing our personal property and sat up in a state of alarm to find at least five people inside our bedroom with large flashlights. She was immediately fearful for the safety of her life, but more importantly the lives of our young children. When she screamed at them, the intruders quickly fled the scene, and laughter was heard as they made their way out of our bedroom, down the stairs and out of our house.

“As these individuals were fleeing our house, Shannon immediately called security and the police for help. Shannon and I believe that a number of the public statements made through media outlets have mischaracterized certain important facts and what we believe to be the seriousness of this potentially devastating invasion upon our lives, home and family.”

We all do dumb things when we’re kids, but the only real way to learn from dumb mistakes is to take the punishment that goes along with them. Should these teens go to jail, no. Should they get a harsh punishment, yes. Punishing these kids will benefit them in the long run, as it will teach them an  important life lesson. It will reinforce the notion that private property should be respected and that satisfying curiosity does not justify breaking the law.

I’m not much of a Miami Heat fan, but the law is the law. The police need to take this matter more seriously so that just may prevail.