cameras. i'm contessa brewer. that's all for this edition of "caught on camera." ♪ ♪ ♪ >> you install security cameras. >> this is my house. i'm seeing them walking around my house. >> but nothing keeps them away. >> there is gun fire. >> bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. >> they creep into your personal space. >> i was freaking out. i was crying, screaming. >> and leave with your hard-earned possessions. >> took my jewelry, money, safe, my computers and they walked away from the front door. in this hour, over the top neighbors. >> he was frightened of me. ? naked intruders. >> went inside and took his clothes off, trashed the place.

>> bumbling burglars. >> we catch really nice face shots that we freeze frame. >> even dangerous animals. >> he looked at me and gave me the look like, what are you doing here? what are they doing here and will they ever leave? are you seriously doing this? >> do you see me? >> it was an ambush. it's crazy. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> hello. i'm confessa brewer, welcome to caught on camera. there's no place like home until your home is invaded by burglars or disturbed by unruly neighbors. the video you're about to see is like a scene from the ok corral, gunmen try to invade a home, but what they don't know is that this homeowner has some firepower of his own.

four robbery suspects run for cover in a real-life wild west shootout that takes place in broad daylight. >> it's the afternoon of february 5, 2009, in tucson, arizona. a home surveillance camera captures a chrysler 300 driving leisurely along this quiet street, but the occupants of the vehicle are not out for a casual drive. they're out for something more sinister. detective e.j.girron. >> you can see the suspect's car drive by the house, by the residence. instead of proceeding down the car, the car stops abruptly. >> you see it stop. the garage is open and they see it as an opportunity to commit the crime. within an instant, they pull

into the driveway. four men jump out, guns drawn. >> the homeowner cease him and coming out of the driveway with the guns. >> the homeowner is standing inside the garage and senses trouble, but instead of giving in, he decides to take matters into his own hands. >> you get inside the house. he is able to keep them out. he does see the gun, and he was able to get access to a firearm and fire back. the suspects took off, some on foot. >> the homeowner refuses to back down and fires off round after round. one of the bullets hits the windshield of the car. maria covers crime for kboa, an nbc affiliate station located in tucson. she vividly remembers seeing the video and being shocked by the brazenness of the crime. >> you had a car pulling into

the driveway. you had four men leaving the car. they were wearing hooded sweatshirts and then there was this barrage of gun fire, and you could hear bam, bam, bam, bam, bam! it was unbelievable that this would happen in broad daylight. >> the gun shots pierce the quiet serenity of the neighborhood and residents are concerned. some feel the homeowner did the right thing by shooting back. >> i am very watchful where we live, and i think everybody has a right to defend their property. . >> the police release the surveillance video to the media and it results in anonymous tips and it results in the arrests for the suspects. >> the fourth suspect we're still trying to identify. >> i bullet hit the wind sheefltd car injures the driver of the vehicle during the gunfight. >> he was not mortally injured.

we do have a warrant for him. he was identified, and at this point we are still looking for him. >> the number of home invagus in the tucson area is still rising according to lupita maria. she's covered crime for 35 years and her reports of invasions is becoming more frequent. >> as far as home invasion in that area, no, it's not surprising. i know that within seven months in that one particular area there have been over 20 home invasions, just that one area. >> police say the area's rise in home invagus is in part due to its proximity to the mexican border, and the tightening of drug enforcement there. those involved with the mexican drug trade are finding it harder to get their drugs and they're getting more and more desperate. it tells us that the border enforcement stuff has had an impact. at times dealers are coming up short and they're being looking for alternate ways to get it. >> there's no evidence linking

this house with the drug trade, but it's still an ongoing investigation. >> someone goes on a stash house because they know it's a stash house. other times there are people who are completely innocent. they don't know what's going on. people are home invading them to get property, get money. >> the area's frequent home invasions have some owners living in fear. >> neighbors are terrified. they don't want to walk the streets at night. they are very concerned and rightfully so. unfortunately, there are some home invasions that people that live in these homes have nothing to do with the drug trade and they're collateral damage, so to speak. it's very, very scary. >> although this home invasion was particularly violent, lupita says it was good it was captured by surveillance cameras because it's rare that this type of crime is seen. >> it gives people an idea how

ruthless these people can be that they go out in broad daylight, guns ablazing and at the same time it helped identify the suspects. >> with the increased attention, the police focus on two suspects still on the loose. they're confident they'll continue the investigation from the surveillance video. it's just a matter of time before police catch them and bring them to justice. ♪ >> we're in an investigation, looking for suspects and being able to apprehend them. >> coming up, brazen thieves go barking up the wrong tree. >> they get the dogs and the dogs are rung all over the place. >> two men take more than just money. >> grandfather, my grandmother, my father, my mother, everything's gone. >> plus, what was it that causes a woman to do this to her poor neighbor? >> fight for your property.

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late one evening in los angeles a bizarre invasion, the like of which law enforcement has rarely seen. it starts innocently enough with two men coming to this house looking to purchase puppies. >> we have a korean family that were in the business of selling very expensive dogs and they're yorkshire barriers. upon they cost $500 to $3,000. >> the suspects tell the family they like the cuddly yorkies and will be back with the money to purchase them. they come back, all right. not with cash, but with guns. >> and as you can see on video, they're trying to get the dogs and the dogs were running all over the place. they did manage to get a couple of dogs. >> the victims are forced at

gunpoint to lay down on the floor while the suspects scramble around the room picking up each puppy one by one. >> they took the dogs and fortunately for the victims and for us this was captured in surveillance video which was shown all over the nation. the dognappers steal four pure bred yorkshire terriers. the police release the video to the media and it gets a tremendous response from people all over the world. >> i've never seen this before in 26 years where people were calling all of the way from england inquiring about the dogs. not about the people that were on the floor, about the dogs. >> with all of the publicity surrounding the video of the crime, the suspects with the precious pups come clean. >> the pressure was on the suspects eventually, and it was for the crime of robbery. the surveillance system in the home seems elaborate. according to detective krona it appears as though the family

anticipated that something like this could happen. >> it's the price you pay sometimes knowing when you're selling dogs or you advertise something that is pricey, there is that possibility that someone will come in and do harm to them or to the dogs or try to steal them. >> both suspects are convicted of robbery, but one of them, troy cabrall, the gunman is also convicted of assault and sentenced to eight years in prison. the other know ma, brian betten gets two years. lucky for them it's not dog years. speaking of dogs, the biggest question surrounding the case, what happened to the puppies? >> we got all of the dogs back. the first suspect that we captured he made some phone calls and managed to get the dogs back to us and we get them back to the victims who probably sold them. ♪ ♪ so you install a security system, position surveillance

cameras all around your home and you think that would be enough to deter would-be robbers from invading your private sanctuary? not a chance according to homeowner abraham scaleien from los angeles. >> july 17, 2008, around 11:30, 12:00. two people walked in my house, took my jewelry, money, safe, my computers, and they walked away from the front door. >> it's broad daylight when the burglars walked past the security signs and entered the home through the back door. the first guy comes in and slowly looks around, checking to see if anyone is home. he realizes he's alone and decides to steal a laptop, then leaves, but that's not the end of it. >> somebody from outside is seen giving him a signal on the phone and says come in, close to the house and then he went out again and called another person. >> the second time two men enter

and decide to check out the rest of the house. they enter the children's bedrooms and don't see much there so they continue their search. >> and they went inside my bedroom, opened the doorawers a removed whatever they found there and they found one safe and then they pick up the safe, and they wrapped it in my son's blanket and they walked away from the front door. all kind of memories from grandfather, grandmother, my mother, my father and money, everything that i worked for for the last 40 years is gone. >> the suspects that burglarized this house they were in there for approximately three minutes. >> abraham and his family are traumatized from the invasion and still don't feel safe at home. >> i am scared. my wife, she couldn't sleep for one month. my daughter, she couldn't sleep there. she slept next to us on the floor. i feel like i live in jail, those people should be in jail, but i feel i'm in jail right

now. >> abraham is so shaken that he decides to add more security equipment to his existing arsenal. put barbed wire on my gate, and i have a dog also. >> unfortunately, no kind of home security can protect a home 100%. detective nathaniel hampton says abraham did everything a homeowner could do to protect his home and property. >> you go off and go where you go, and you come back and you expect everything to be intact and the way you left it. i think the suspect that burglarized this house they couldn't have gotten luckier in that particular day by seeing him back out of his driveway and assume that he was the only one in the residence. it was a golden opportunity for him to come up and see if they could get in, and he ultimately did. >> but at least with surveillance cameras, victimized homeowners could have a fighting chance at catching the thieves. >> if you can afford some type

of surveillance video, it's definitely good protection to have because if you can catch someone on that tape, most likely we will identify him or her. >> abraham immediately alerts police and shows them his video. after being on the videotape, i can see that it was two suspects that was involved in the incident. they were eventually identified. >> the police eventually apprehend both suspects and charge them with burglary. ♪ >> this florida home being broken into belongs to 32-year-old electrical engineer chris moffett. a few years ago chris was the victim of an attempted home invasion. >> they tried to kick out my front door while i was home, so that rattled me enough to get a security camera system to where i can see someone at the front door or around my house especially when i'm not home. >> chris installs a $1,000

security system that includes four cameras, a digital recorder and a gateway through the internet. gateways plasters the exterior of the house with warnings that clearly display the name and logo of the security system that's protecting his home. >> the signs are really hard to miss, but they don't seem to deter these dumb criminals. even the window that they break clearly has the adt seal on it, but they are determined to get in and steal something. >> on the video itself you will see the two suspects come around the corner of the house. they walked over to the camera, point it back down toward the ground, but what they don't realize is that their mugs have already been caught on camera. >> as they flip it down toward the ground we catch some really nice face shots that we can freeze frame. >> and it's this smiling face on the surveillance video that's taken into evidence by the police and released to the media. >> once it was on the news the police got flooded with phone

calls because of the good face shots of the suspects. the police actually issued $1,000 reward, and a lot of people responded right away, probably even their friends turned them in for the $1,000 reward. >> both suspects are caught within four days of the crime. >> it's nice to know that my investment paid off, and that the system's working and it keeps my house safe when i'm not home. ♪ ♪ coming up, a naked man seen running down the hallway of a philadelphia apartment building. >> when you think you've seen it all here's something a little new. >> a woman logs on and watches a robbery in her home live. >> there is a man in my house and he's robbing it. >> what's got this neighbor so ticked off. >> the more he stole the more i did it. when "caught on camera invasion" continues. dave. dave. dave.

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>> philadelphia, pennsylvania, the city of brotherly love, but what some residents witness in their apartment building one friday evening isn't brotherly at all. more like bizarre. >> i can't even look out of the window without being scared right now. >> took my laptop and trashed everything in the room. when he heard the police were coming he snuck back out without clothes on, by the way. >> yes. you heard right. the intruder in joyce's apartment has no clothes on. he's naked. nude. bare. >> it started off just pretty much like any other crime. >> deanna durante, a reporter for nbc's wcau gets an e-mail from one of her police sources about a man running naked down a hallway in an apartment building. >> he said, hey, can you help us out, put these surveillance pictures on tv? >> police are concerned that because the suspect is nude the

crime may be of a sexual nature. and because the incident happens at an off-campus housing site where a few students from a nearby university live, the police are eager to unravel the mystery. >> we tried to keep the serious tone because he broke into an apartment where single young women live. they didn't know, were they dealing with someone who has a sexual predator background or were they dealing with just some kook they didn't know. >> so not only do the police release the surveillance tape to the media but they post it on the internet. and with a quick click of the mouth this invader's bare essentials debut around the world. >> he was able to walk right into the front door. at the time he's not dressed like you would expect an adult man to be dressed at 4:00 on a friday afternoon. >> the suspect tries to open different apartment doors to see if he can get in. >> found one that was unlocked, went inside, took his clothes off, trashed the place, left with a laptop computer, and he left behind his clothes. >> at this point the surveillance camera captures the

suspect running down the hallway, completely buck naked. >> we live in philadelphia, a city that has seen 300-plus murders in a year. so we're not shocked by much. but this is one, you know, when you think you've seen it all, here's something a little new. guy running around in a thunderstorm knocking on windows trying to get into apartments naked. at first we thought it was bizarre. >> through tips police find their man. his name is michael victor, and he lives right across the street from the apartment building. and not only that, he works in the neighborhood. >> he's an elementary school janitor that was employed with the school district of philadelphia up until his arrest. not only is he running around naked, but he's been in a school with kids. >> according to court papers, the story michael victor tells investigators is that he came home, drank a significant amount of alcohol, and broke into a neighbor's home. that's when he loses it. all of it. >> he goes next door, helps himself to a beer from his vacationing neighbor's

refrigerator, takes off his clothes, then rifles through the belongings of their teenage daughter and the woman who lives in the home. >> he then leaves the neighbor's home, enters the off-campus apartment building, takes a computer, and leaves, without a stitch of clothing. neighbors can't believe the man they've known for years now has a bum rap. >> i'm shocked, really. i'm kind of happy that we know who it is and that, you know, he's going to be put away, you hope anyway. and it's a little disturbing that he lives right next door toll me. >> we hear it all the time. quiet guy, see him every day. we had no idea. >> do you have anything to say? >> michael victor pleads guilty to burglary, attempted burglary, indecent exposure, and criminal mischief. in april 2010 he's sentenced to 11 to 23 months in prison. >> he said he has some severe issues to deal with and he's in the process of dealing with those now, and he's going to upon release enter facility so that he can deal with the issue. he's very sorry, and he's going to take action to make sure nothing like this ever happens

again. >> i think one thing i find amazing is when we go out, we're always asking is there video? do you have surveillance pictures? that's what we ask police. and i'm always surprised that people who are doing something they shouldn't be or people who are in places they shouldn't be aren't thinking about the fact that they might be caught on tape. >> independence, kentucky. 2006. the hall family suspects their 16-year-old daughter lindsay is the victim of a peeping tom. and their fear is confirmed with a startling discovery. >> i was freaking out. i was crying and screaming. >> the halls set up a surveillance camera outside lindsay's basement bedroom window hoping to catch the creep, and they do. the suspect tries to remove the camera, but not before his image is clearly caught on camera. the family checks the video and calls 9-1-1.

>> i knew right then he was out there. and so i sneaked in the kitchen and i called 9-1-1. >> the police respond and find fresh footprints and knee markings by the window. a police dog tracks the scent to the suspect's home, which is only blocks away. >> the track was 1,000, 1,500 yards to the rear of the residence. basically just a street over. >> that was pretty scary to me, knowing that he was that close to me. >> the suspect is 28-year-old john morgan, a married father of two. he admits to police that, yes, indeed, he is the man on the tape. >> when i watched that video, it was like watching a scary movie on the outside of my home. >> i wanted to take him out of this world is what i wanted to do because he pretty much changed my daughter's life forever. >> why were you peeping through that window? john, what do you have to say? >> the suspect is convicted of voyeurism and trespassing. he's sentenced to two years'

probation. the halls are working with the local officials to change the law so that peeping toms receive more punishment for that crime. they hope it will prevent other people from peeping and creeping out anyone else. coming up -- love they neighbor? i think not. >> i don't really take it upon myself to hit everybody. but i'm afraid he got me in the wrong mood that morning. >> a feisty neighbor lashes out. when "caught on camera: invasion" continues. so, this is delicious

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i'm milissa rehberger with breaking news from the campaign trail. nbc news confirmed that jon huntsman is dropping out of the race for the gop presidential nomination. the former utah governor came in third in the new hampshire primary on tuesday. nbc news political director chief white house correspondent as well and host of msnbc's

"daily rundown" chuck todd is joining us. my first question to you is does this come as a surprise at all to you? >> it's not that big of a surprise. it was surprising that he chose to go on after new hampshire when he didn't finish in second place, number one. number two, if he chose to go on it was surprising that he went on to break double digits in south carolina. his advisers told me that after new hampshire if they felt like they could go on their goal is to deny romney's vickory. period. that's what makes this more surprising is he's getting out and when he gets out tomorrow he's endorsing mitt romney at 11:00 at his event down there in south carolina. so that's probably the most surprising part because all of the reporting about the two of them not getting along was very true. >> why mitt romney for him, and does his endorsement with his numbers being so low, is it that important?

>> well, i think it matters for a little bit. simply it adds to the inevitability about romney, number one. number two, it's one last critic on stage and there are two more debates with the critic. huntsman was trying to take from romney's political left, take some independents. those folks now, the most comfortable place they may be are romney and they're not going to go to santorum, gingrich or perry, and it does isolate the conservative vote now and the splintering that's going there between santorum and gingrich, in particular, and even perry. what's interesting is the events of the weekend, huntsman's dropping out and a bunch of evangelicals decided they wanted to rally around rick santorum. don't be surprised that there was conservative pressure, get out before the primary tried it and see if conservatives can

consolidate around santorum and see if they can stop romney, or at least stop him in south carolina. >> he took sort of a different slant than the other candidates. he focused on new hampshire and he didn't finish well there. what were his mistakes along the way and why is it that his candidacy really did not resonate with gop voters? >> well, he's certainly not where today's republican party is. i think when he was trying to run as sort of the maverick moderate he was trying to entice many of his advisers and form john mccain people that he was trying to emulate mccain 2000, but the one that almost upset george w. bush in 2000, and he was trying to use that campaign as a blueprint. one problem for huntsman he simply didn't connect on a personal level and he didn't have the charisma that john mccain did in 2000. he can play the maverick and nonconservative because he always had his war record to lean on.

huntsman doesn't have that. he's a millionaire and they invented the big mac clam shell. it wasn't like being this personal narrative out of this bipartisan and in this republican party right now the idea to having worked for barack obama that was going to be a nonstarter for too many republicans. >> so what do you think is in his future? do you think he'll pursue politics, perhaps 2016 or do you see himself taking out of the ring entirely after this experience? >> i always like to quote james carville who said running for president is like having sex. you don't just do it once. a lot of these guys end up running again and again. it was him setting himself up for 2016 to see where the republican party is, and i think frankly, that's the motivation of him getting out now and not trying to look like a spoiler and not trying to go out on a sour note, but get out, get out now, rally around mitt romney

and it's what romney did with mccain and got out earlier than some folks had expected back in 2008, and it earned him some chips inside the republican party, and doing it now and doing it this way and creating a spotlight around romney pays dividends down the road. >> he's speaking tomorrow at myrtle beach, south carolina. let's talk about south carolina looking forward to that, and rick perry and newt gingrich are very, very low in the polls. so let's look at that contest and see who do you think is next to make the same decision? >> that's where i think you'll see some pressure, public pressure from conservatives for gingrich to get out because when you look at gingrich and santorum, which one of them has a little better of a chance to become the conservative to romney, and i think if you look at it on paper you put it on the scale for santorum, and if that's the case i think you'll

see conservatives put pressure on mitt to get out. social conservatives feel very comfortable rallying around santorum and they don't around gingrich, and if there is a remaining vote out there, he still is. he's still not breaking 40 with republican primary voters if conservatives did consolidate, he'd likely lose the state. he'd be close, but he would likely lose, and it would sort of force romney to have a conservative task going into florida, and even if they don't beat him, it's a way to send a message to him, don't forget us because if you do you'll have problems down the road. >> nbc's chuck todd, thank you so much. we'll hear more from you tomorrow for sure. jon huntsman has dropped out of the gop race for the presidential nomination and he'll speak tomorrow morning at 11:00 a.m. and endorse mitt romney for his candidacy. back to our program.

they actually started out on good terms. that's right. they were once friendly neighbors. >> when we first met we actually used to do on the cars for them. >> it was all right in the beginning, we were quite friendly with them. >> but the newspaper attack makes black and white for luke. he calls the police and they give valerie a strong warning not to harass luke and perry anymore. >> i think the exact words the police used was good luck. >> i'll do it again if i've got the paper in my hand because he made me so angry because it was a setup. you can't do too much damage with a newspaper, can you? not to be arrested and put in prison? ♪ ♪ >> the guys want to put this incident behind them, but valerie stands her ground until the very end.

>> fight for your property. what do they say? an englishman's home is his castle. i should have taken my heel off and given him a good bang, bang, bang, bang! ♪ ♪ ♪ >> it's insane. we have to take this -- >> from bang, bang in the uk to bang, bang in the suburbs of orlando, florida. another pair of feuding neighbors battling not over a garbage bin, close enough. >> how about the trash. >> why would you think we would throw trash? >> because it's laying right here. the only place it could come from is if you throw it over here. >> have you looked at how clean we live? >> because you throw it over here. >> for 37-year-old angie haddock it all comes to a head one spring morning in 2008. >> we heard this really obnoxious banging, and it was clearly on our fence, so, you know, my husband grabbed the

camera and he followed me around to the side where we found her banging away. >> angie discovers her neighbor trying to post a sign on her side of the fence. >> you are a riot. are you seriously doing this? do you see me? >> it was kind of comical because she couldn't get the sign to stay up. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the signpost saga is the culmination of months of bickering between these neighbors in side by side bungalows. >> we moved into the house in july '07 and within a couple of months we realized that there might be a problem with her and how she perceived us because she brought to our attention that there was trash and debris in her yard that seemingly had come from her side of the fence, a cigarette butt, a beer can. >> i'm going to build a 20-foot wall between us. you've made this very difficult. >> for months she tried to mend

fences by talking to the neighbor, but no luck. >> we tried talking, getting police and advice from attorneys and that didn't work and everyone we talked to was just baffled so we just felt that if we stayed out of her way it would go away, and it didn't. >> angie insists to her neighbor that it's not her trash. maybe it's the yard workers, after all, angie loves her home and is obsessed with her keeping it clean and tidy. >> people who know me would joke and say i have a touch of, cd. i don't like to live in a pigsty, and when you live in such a nice neighborhood the last thing i want to do is make it look worse and i want to bought phi it. >> i'm sorry that you think it was us. >> we contacted angie's neighbor, a 62-year-old mother of three to get her side of the story, and she told us that she was angry that day because she believed angie and her family had been littering up her yard for months and she'd just had

enough. she also asked us to blur her image for this story. >> i was told by the police department that i could do it and i'm going to do it. it's my fence and it's my property. if i can't get this up i'll just reach over and paint this. >> no, you're not. >> it's my fence, i can do what i want. >> you'll look great on the news. >> surprisingly, it's the neighbor who calls the police. the police order her to remove the sign and they tell angie to get a no trespassing warrant to prevent the neighbor from coming on to her property, angie gets the warrant, but she also gets revenge. she posted the video on youtube. i don't think i could have written a better script, but carry on. >> i didn't expect anyone to get the video. i put it on for my friends and family and they didn't believe how bad it was. i figured it was entertaining and maybe it would embarrass her and she would leave us alone. >> believe it or not, angie and her neighbor have made up and

angie has moved away and moved on with her life. if she ran into her neighbor you'd see a reunion quite unlike this video. >> she'd give me a big hug and, and through this she's developed a liking to me, and i kind of like her, too. >> coming up. a homeowner watches a robbery unfold on her computer. >> he's in my house. i'm seeing them walking around my house. >> you won't believe what she sees when "caught on camera invasion" continues. laces? really? slip-on's the way to go. more people do that, security would be like -- there's no charge for the bag. thanks. i know a quiet little place where we can get some work done. there's a three-prong plug. i have club passes.

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>> he's in my house. i'm seeing him walking around my house. >> boynton beach, florida, is a bedroom community, located between two cities, fort lauderdale and west palm beach. with its waterways, manicured lawns, and tall palm trees dotting the landscape, it's a beautiful place to settle down and raise a family. >> we moved in this neighborhood about 16 years ago. we moved in the house when it was brand new. it seems to be a very nice community. lots of children around. lots of activities for the children to do. and it seems to be generally warm, and everybody seems to know other people. >> reporter: but although the community promotes a sense of peace and tranquility, like most places, it also has an underside. >> we have everything from the low-income drug crimes all the way up to white-collar frauds. >> and one spring morning jean's home becomes a boynton beach crime statistic.

burglars crawl through a doggie door located in the kitchen. they think no one sees them. but miles away, someone is watching. >> i was at the office. i wasn't there. i was watching a live video feed of my house. and there was a man in my house, and he was robbing me. >> yes, jean thomas is at her desk watching her own home being robbed. jean's a university travel counselor, works full time, and had installed a low-cost internet-based home surveillance system a few months earlier because she'd been robbed once before. she's determined not to be a victim again. funny enough, her husband thinks it's a stupid idea. >> he thought it was absolutely crazy to buy it. i was like you know what? just humor me. i'm going to purchase this. and i just have a feeling i will be able to save something. i had no idea that i would actually catch somebody

red-handed in the act by a pure feeling there's a problem. >> that feeling, a gut feeling, is what jean has when she decides to check the video system. >> when i logged on and it opened up, there was a man standing in my living room, opened up, there was a man standing in my living room, taking my son's video games, collecting his remote controls, and taking it back to my bedroom. i immediately called 9-1-1 in a full panic. >> 9-1-1. >> i'm watching my home online m monitor and there's someone in my house and he's robbing. oh, god, please hurry. please hurry. >> officer brian goldfuss is on patrol and hears over the radio there's a burglary in progress. >> while we were en route to the burglary in progress, we were being told by dispatch that the caller, miss thomas, was actually currently watching on her surveillance camera these people inside her house. >> he's in my living room in the

main part of the house. >> officer goldfuss is surprised because catching a crime in progress is rare. >> a lot of times what we find is people have surveillance cameras, and they find it way after the fact. they get home from work, check their cameras, and see that somebody had broken into their house. it was a nice change that somebody was actually currently watching it and was able to direct us into the house to actually catch these people committing the crime. >> the police arrive at the home and catch the criminals in the act. >> at that point, the person noticed that people were outside. he opened the vertical blinds, looked out, saw the police. then he must have told his buddy that was in my bedroom. then they started to panic. they ran around the house, tried to figure out how they could get out. there was no way to get out. the back was surrounded. the front was surrounded. they knew they were trapped. i saw the one go out with his hands up. the other one tried to dispose of the bag that he had thrown

jewelry and stuff into. and he then went out as well. and the police apprehended them. >> after the suspects are detained and jean arrives home, the police ask jean for the surveillance tape. >> watching the video, we saw the two suspects actually crawled in through a doggie door, which luckily enough is where the camera was pointed at. >> while the robbery is taking place, one of the suspects is so brazen he takes food out of the refrigerator. >> the big guy gets out shredded kraft mexican cheese for tacos, walks out into the living room, opens up the shredded cheese, and decides to start eating shredded cheese. obviously they hadn't eaten before they burglarize houses. >> news of the crime goes national. msnbc, telemundo, and the "today" show pick up the story, and for a day jean becomes a media darling. >> in boynton beach this morning.

and jean thomas with us here in the studio. jean, good morning to you. >> when the dust finally settles, four men are apprehended. two that were in the home and two in the getaway car. they're charged with and plead guilty to burglary. >> at the end of the day, i feel criminals don't know what they're walking into. you have no idea. and you know what? average people can catch them. with technology nowadays, they don't stand a chance. coming up -- >> a bear does the bear paddle in a backyard pool. >> i went into the backyard where i came face to face and had a close encounter with a bear. >> when "caught on camera: invasion" continues.

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sunny afternoons in the hills of southern california. no quakes, no wildfires, and no storms. just the kind of day that makes you want to sit back and feel groovy. and it seems that goes for bears too. ♪ a big brown bear, one that looks eerily similar to this one on the california state flag. it's invaded this san dimas home. a news helicopter captures the scene of the bear taking a leisurely swim, doing the breast stroke in this backyard pool. ♪ alex vasquez, a photojournalist for several local television stations, hears on a police scanner there's a bear in the hills. >> i'm pretty familiar with this area since i live nearby, and i cover this area pretty exclusively. i work my way up the hill when i notice that there was a news helicopter in the area, also searching for this bear. >> being the tv pro he is and wanting to get the story, alex decides to make his way onto the

property and knock on the door. but no one's home. >> the gate was open, and i went into the backyard, where i came face to face and had a close encounter with the bear. he looked at me and kind of gave me that look of what are you doing here? and i gave him the same look and kind of basically shot video. >> alex's journalistic instincts take precedence over fear. >> i wasn't scared only because i think i've covered enough bears in this area where i've kind of become a little familiar and i wanted to get the shot. >> and, yes, he gets the shot. it isn't until later that he asks himself, what was i thinking? >> i went back and thought about it, like, wow, i shouldn't have gotten that close to that bear. >> homeowner charlie heaton, who was not at home at the time, doesn't have any idea what's transpiring in his backyard. >> i came home. there was all kinds of activity. i saw some police. the sheriffs up on the hill. i ran up there, and said, what's going on, and they said, oh,

there's a bear up in the tree. >> but what he didn't know is that the bear also took a dip in his pool and the whole thing is caught on camera. he's tipped off by his daughter-in-law, who sees the news footage. >> the temperatures in the 90s out in san dimas. the bear decided to take a dip. >> charlie is thoroughly amused and forwards the video to all his friends. >> people come back and say is that your house? is that really in your pool? and i say, yeah, it's ours. it's totally funny. it's amazing that a bear would actually come down here and get in the pool and just enjoy itself. i'm very happy to have it. from big bears to feisty neighbors to brazen criminals, you might wonder how to keep peace and quiet in your home. well, that would be a whole different show, wouldn't it? if you have a video you'd like to send to us, log on to our website at caughtoncamera.msnbc.com. i'm contessa brewer. that's all for this edition of