{"id":8867,"date":"2025-10-17T01:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T01:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/8867\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T01:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T01:25:07","slug":"burglars-heard-on-video-during-break-in-at-an-encino-home-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/8867\/","title":{"rendered":"Burglars heard on video during break-in at an Encino home \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As more homes in the San Fernando Valley continue to be burglarized, a group of thieves were caught on video, discussing their criminal plans while stealing from an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/tag\/encino\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/tag\/encino\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Encino<\/a> home.<\/p>\n<p>The burglary happened Sunday afternoon as at least three people dressed in all black clothing ransacked the bedroom.<\/p>\n<p>While one of them was seen in home surveillance video going into the closet, another burglar was heard communicating with a possible accomplice on a Walkie Talkie.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/noho.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>A group of burglars were seen in home security video, attempting to break into a home this week. <\/p>\n<p>Then two days later, a home in North Hollywood was targeted by criminals in the middle of an afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lea Young, the homeowner, told NBC Los Angeles that she believes the burglars had been watching her home and saw her backing out of the driveway.<\/p>\n<p>Security video showed three people with masks and hoodies getting out of a black car and walking toward the side gate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What they didn\u2019t know, Young said, was that her husband was at home, attending a Zoom call.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of a sudden, he realized, \u2018Oh my god. They have masks, and they\u2019re hooded. They are burglars,\u2019\u201d Young described what her husband said.<\/p>\n<p>As Young\u2019s husband screamed, saying, \u201cCall 911,\u201d burglars took off running,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe jumped up, ran out of the office doors and just screamed, \u2018Hey!\u2019\u201d the homeowner described. \u201cThey just got into their BMW and sped off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A retired LAPD detective said it appears there are more than one or two groups committing the crime together.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey know what to do,\u201d retired detective Leanora Lindsey said. \u201cIf they are following somebody, for example, a group, they could ping that cell.<\/p>\n<p>Lindsey reminded homeowners to secure high-value items either in a floor or wall safe, test their alarm system and add neighbors to the alert system so they too can be notified.<\/p>\n<p>The LAPD said investigators do not believe the Encino and North Hollywood incidents are related.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No arrests were made.<\/p>\n<p>LA Mayor Karen Bass\u2019 office said the city and LAPD are taking aggressive action to keep Encino and San Fernando Valley communities safe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLAPD will be conducting additional patrols, and we are closely monitoring crime trends in the area to determine other next steps,\u201d the mayor\u2019s office said in a statement. \u201cWhen there was an uptick in crime over the summer, the City responded with additional patrols, deployed license plate readers and increased coordination with partner agencies. \u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As more homes in the San Fernando Valley continue to be burglarized, a group of thieves were caught&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[8616,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-8867","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-encino","9":"tag-la","10":"tag-la-headlines","11":"tag-la-news","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","14":"tag-los-angeles-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}