Rodriguez said he rushed outside moments later and believes the suspects escaped in a maroon SUV.<\/p>\n
SAN ANTONIO \u2014 A west-side homeowner says surveillance video captured a bold attempted car break-in outside his residence early Wednesday morning \u2014 including the suspect making an obscene gesture toward the camera before taking off.<\/p>\n
Noel Rodriguez said the incident happened just after 3 a.m. along Robles Street. Video from his home security system appears to show a young suspect trying to get into a parked vehicle before nearby sirens and a security alarm startled the group.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe arrogance these kids have, and the bravery!\u201d Rodriguez said.<\/p>\n
The surveillance video also shows the suspect raising both middle fingers toward the camera moments before fleeing.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe goes, grabs it, doesn\u2019t like it, flips off my camera,\u201d Rodriguez said. \u201cAnd as soon as he flips off my camera, my security system goes off.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rodriguez said he rushed outside moments later and believes the suspects escaped in a maroon SUV.<\/p>\n
\u201cI almost caught him,\u201d he said. \u201cI came out and I could see the taillights in the car.\u201d<\/p>\n
The homeowner says break-ins have become a recurring problem in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt just gets tiresome,\u201d Rodriguez said. \u201cThis street here has been hit so many times to the point now where I had to spend a little money and beef up my security.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rodriguez said his red Chevrolet pickup truck was burglarized in 2021, when someone stole a gun from inside the vehicle.<\/p>\n
After posting the latest surveillance video to social media, Rodriguez said some of the reactions concerned him, including comments calling for violence against the suspect.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2018The kid wouldn\u2019t make it off my grass. This kid is gonna end up on a shirt,\u2019\u201d Rodriguez recalled reading online.<\/p>\n
According to San Antonio Police Department data under the National Incident-Based Reporting System, there were 3,443 car burglaries reported between February and May of last year. During the same period in 2026, that number increased to 3,574.<\/p>\n
Rodriguez says he hopes the suspects are caught before a future encounter turns dangerous.<\/p>\n
\u201cSooner or later, if their luck runs out, they run across somebody who\u2019s really stressed out,\u201d he said. \u201cSomething really bad could happen, and that\u2019s what I don\u2019t want.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rodriguez said he rushed outside moments later and believes the suspects escaped in a maroon SUV. SAN ANTONIO…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-637481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}