Mr. Crews looked forward to the weekend trip to take his daughter to summer camp. His peaceful weekend, however, was shattered when he arrived back home and was greeted with a living room that was in disarray. After checking around the house, he noticed that his son's bedroom window had been broken; frame and all!

The mess in his home was incidental to his loss of property; approximately $3,500 in electronics was missing.  The thieves took a forty-two inch flat screen TV, two flat screen computer monitors, a Nintendo Wii System a PlayStation console and an electric guitar.

Naturally, feelings of being violated surfaced as he realized that so much he had worked hard for was gone; taken by strangers who cared nothing for his ownership.

Although the thieves took thousands of dollars of electronics, they failed to grab the small tubular looking hidden cameras, while they were scavenging through the house. Valued at $470, and filming valuable footage, these secluded eyes would ultimately help to put them in jail,.

As Mr. Crews watched the footage, he saw two teenagers appear at or around the 4:00 am time frame on Saturday evening. To avoid leaving fingerprints behind, one of them had socks on his hands like mittens. When they couldn't get everything in one trip, they decided to come back about an hour later. The sock mittens where missing on this trip.

Law enforcement in Fayetteville found the hidden camera footage extremely helpful. Between the video evidence and the fingerprints they left behind on a scanner, they felt it would only be a matter of time before the thieves were apprehended. The police could hardly believe that an average home had such a great protection system.

Mr. Crews, a computer tech, installed the home surveillance system himself because often times his children were home alone.

Although Crews had placed a sign on one of his home's windows announcing to would be bandits that the home was equipped with a video surveillance system, the two robbers must not have seen it, otherwise they, most likely, would have passed his home by. He plans to place a larger sign on the lawn as a deterrent for future would be thieves.

The Crews family was not new to the Glen Canyon Drive neighborhood. They have lived there for over 14 years with not even an attempted break-in. Although he's not sure why his home was targeted this time, Mr. Crews feels sure they must have known he was going to be away the entire weekend.

The police are still looking for the suspects but armed with video footage of their activity, images of their faces and fingerprints, it won't be long before they are behind bars.  

Michael Crews may have lost over $3,000 in possessions but knowing he had equipment in place to help catch the thieves is priceless!