SAN ANTONIO – A woman who lives on the near North Side said she's nervous a burglar is targeting her neighborhood. Sunday was the second time her house has been burglarized this year.
"In the last year, I've noticed people post flyers, 'There's a thief in the neighborhood.' It's happened before, but it's just never happened to me," Marcy Fernandez said.
Fernandez lives on North Flores Street, north of downtown. When her house became a target, she was able to catch it all on camera. She hopes the surveillance video she caught of a thief breaking into her home will land the criminal in jail.
In the beginning of the video clip, Fernandez's front door clanged and crunched as a man broke through it, forcing himself into her home on North Flores. He first barged into the bedroom and she later found out that he went straight for the drawers and stole some cash.
"Since I'm a waiter, I happened to have some really good tips that week," she said. "I hadn't been able to make it to the bank yet."
The video shows the burglar leaving the bedroom and moving along through the house.
"He took my pillowcase and started putting stuff in it. He's looking in drawers where the TV is, goes into my kitchen. I actually had a camera on a tripod. You can see the camera case with the lenses in it," Fernandez said, pointing to the video playing on her laptop.
There's a reason Fernandez set up this surveillance system. She said someone broke into her home on Easter Sunday earlier this year, stealing about $4,000 worth of items from the same exact places in her house.
"The first time they took my cash, which was over $1,300, and they took a digital camera, which was really, really nice, and some small items, I had some coins I'd collected, some jewelry," she said.
Last Sunday, her camera caught the whole thing. She hopes her video will help police track down the suspect.
"This is where the actual fingerprints dusting took place by the police, and there's some on this side as well," she said, pointing to black smudges on her doors.
She said the video is so clear, the public may be able to identify the person.
"The most important thing to me, those items can always be replaced, is this guy needs to get caught. Because this has just gotten out of hand, obviously, and it can happen to anyone. Maybe he could go a step further and actually hurt someone," Fernandez said.
Police confirmed to KSAT that they are looking into the case. Anyone who recognizes the man in the video is asked to call SAPD at (210) 207-7273.