Key Highlights
- The warning comes after the San José Police Department on Thursday responded to a neighborhood on the east side of the city. Officers learned burglars hid a camouflaged camera in the bushes outside a home before fleeing the scene.
- The homeowner later discovered the camera, and it was collected by police.
- Police shared a photo of a camouflaged camera.
- (San Jose Police Department) MASKED THIEVES IN SOUTH AMERICAN CRIME RING LOOT AMERICAN HOMES IN COORDINATED PATTERN, POLICE WARN Authorities said the camera was attached to a power bank and positioned facing the house, presumably to monitor the residents in preparation for a burglary or other criminal activity.
- SJPD Burglary Unit detectives opened an investigation, later finding a second camouflaged device near the area of where the first camera was located.
