CHICAGO — A video shows three people breaking into a woman's Jefferson Park home on Monday.
At 1 p.m., the woman called 911 and said she'd gotten home only to realize she'd been burglarized, police said. Officers went to the home in the 5400 block of North Lynch and looked at surveillance video which showed three men getting into the home through a window near the back porch.
The woman wasn't sure what had been taken when she reported the crime, police said. The burglars were described as three men who were 20 to 30 years old.
A neighbor said money, jewelry, an iPad, laptop and other items were swiped during the burglary. The men went through each room, "threw everything around" and dumped the items they took into a pillow case.
A video provided by the neighbor shows three men walking into a backyard. Two of them climb the stairs to a back porch and fumble with windows to the home while another looks into a garage. One of the men takes a shovel and tries to use it to open the window.
The men can be seen moving cameras that recorded the incident, at which point the recording of them ends. The neighbor said they destroyed the cameras.
At the front of the home, a recording shows a fourth man walking up to the door and repeatedly ringing the bell. After several minutes, he calls someone on his phone.
The neighbor, who asked not to be named, said the fourth person was calling the three in the back so they knew no one was home and they could burglarize the house.
Watch the video of the burglary:
The neighbor said something similar happened at a home she's rehabbing two blocks away: A resident called her and said there were three men or teens inside the building.
The neighbor went to that house, but the three were gone by the time she got there, she said.
Nothing similar has ever occurred in the neighborhood, she said.
She's planning to show the video to the resident who spotted the three men at the home she's rehabbing so they can see if the incidents were done by the same people.
An investigation was ongoing.
