Home surveillance video catches Apopka burglar in action

Viewer posts video on News 6 Facebook page

APOPKA, Fla. – A family that was robbed when they were at a store hopes social media and Clear Home security video can help lead to arrests.

The break-in happened at a home on Oak Pointe Circle in Apopka.

A viewer posted the video on the News4Jax sister station News 6's Facebook page Tuesday evening shortly after the crime.

 

The two men on the video are seen using a crowbar to crack their way into Wendy Milburn's house when she took her kids to the store. The burglars broke in through the rear sliding glass door, walked past an array of children's toys, past more security cameras and ransacked the bedrooms upstairs.

"All the closets, all the drawers, tossed and on the floor," said Milburn, who said she quickly realized she and her kids missed walking in on the crime by minutes. "Had I not stopped to get them, something at the grocery store, we would have been here at the same time."

Milburn said a neighbor saw an older model white Infiniti with tinted windows driving in circles around the neighborhood before it parked in her driveway.

Milburn installed cameras all over her house after getting robbed in her old home. This time, a package left on her doorstep might have been the signal to the crooks that nobody was home.

The crooks took a safe with important family documents.

Milburn said she's hoping her good-quality video will catch these men soon.