CLOVIS, Calif. (KMPH) – 16-year-old Chandler had only had his new surveillance cameras up a month when he had to put it into action.
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“One of our other neighbors posted on Facebook that her car got broken into. So I decided to go back and check the footage because it records for two weeks. And sure enough, we saw more than we bargained for,” Chandler said.
What they saw were these images of a man walking up to cars around the neighborhood, checking if they were locked.
“It just makes me sad. I leave my alarm on all the time now,” Suzanne Arnold said.
Arnold has surveillance cameras too. It was on them not long ago that she and her husband watched thieves take off with their tailgate.
“Two men drove up, parked in front of our house around two in the morning and took it off. Within a minute or two they were out of here,” Arnold said.
In this same culd e sac, Janet Wedeking has been a victim too.
“Everything had been ransacked through my car. Unfortunately I left it open. So they went through, they actually went through my mail and somebody took my kids Thanksgiving cards,” Wedeking said.
These guys are really getting brazen. One neighbor recently had their car stolen right in front of their house.
When they got it back about three weeks later, the woman who stole their car called the homeowner and asked for the stuff back that she left in the car before police took it.
“They get bolder. It’s like they’re just getting bolder,” Wedeking said.
Neighbors here say they know this thug is one of many.
“I don’t think they get in trouble. I don’t think, even if they catch him, he’ll be out the next day and they’ll just do it again,” Arnold said.
So they’re policing their own neighborhood, with surveillance cameras like Chandler’s, hoping the next thief is as oblivious as the last.
“I’m actually surprised the guy didn’t see them because there’s little infrared things that glow at nighttime,” Chandler said.
With the images from the surveillance video, Chandler also made posters to put up around the neighborhood, so neighbors will know who to watch out for.
So here’s how the numbers stack up according to Clovis Police.
In January 2011, there were four vehicle burglaries and four home burglaries in the Deuaville Neighborhood.
In January 2012, in that same neighborhood, police say there were five vehicle burglaries and one home burglary.
