Man attempting to break into Boynton home caught on live webcam, police say | Video

A home security camera captured a man trying to break into a Boynton Beach home. The homeowner was watching from work and called police. The man was arrested.

2:37 p.m. EST, March 7, 2014

Jennifer Clewes couldn't believe what she was seeing on the computer screen, and neither could the huddle of co-workers who sat behind her as they watched a man trying to break into her house.

Clewes was viewing a live-feed from a webcam in her office after being alerted via the webcam's app that there was motion at the house.

When she logged on, she saw a man whom police suspect is Christopher Robinson, 43, trying to get into her house just after 9 a.m. Thursday in her neighborhood east of Interstate 95 and north of Woolbright Road in Boynton Beach.

Boynton Beach police say the suspect walked up to Clewes' home carrying a crowbar and tried to get in the house through the rear sliding door.

When he came up to the door at about 9:11 a.m., her camera alerted her, she said. She figured it was her two golden retrievers at home stressing over a neighborhood cat in the yard and ignored the alert.

But when it alerted her again six minutes later, she decided to log on and see what her pups were up to. She saw her two dogs barking, but not at a cat they were barking at a man.

"I immediately picked up my phone and called police," she said. "They are like, 'Are you in the house?' and I'm like, 'No, I'm watching it live.'"

Police arrived on scene, and located Robinson one street north of Clewes' home. He is charged with burglary of an unoccupied dwelling and petit theft, and is being held in the Palm Beach County Jail in lieu of a $500 bail.

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