JACKSON, MS (Mississippi News Now) -
We have obtained Youtube video of a crime going down in Belhaven. The
cameras show a guy stealing property right off the front porch in broad
daylight.
No one wants to chain down patio furniture on the
front porch, so as it develops, there is nothing like a few friends and
the power of social media to help catch a crook.
We begin with
an unwelcome visitor. Driving what appears to be an older model Crown
Victoria. The unidentified subject casually walks up to a home on Poplar
Street in Belhaven. Then he surveys vintage patio furniture.
Little
did the thief know, the owner had just purchased an inexpensive camera
security system and installed it easily himself. With his laptop or iPad
he can monitor his home from anywhere in the world. Then he posted it
on Youtube.
You see the guy leave, all the while checking out his
surroundings. Then he backed his car up and around the corner to avoid
the obvious.
Cameras catch him jumping on the front porch and
stealing 3 chairs and a glider. With his trunk up and loaded with stolen
goods he slowly drives out of the Belhaven neighborhood to sell it.
Ironically
a local used furniture dealer saw the video and recognized the thief
who sold the stolen patio furniture to him recently. He contacted Brian
Perry on Youtube and now police are tracking the subject down.
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