CAUGHT ON CAMERA: Man Steals From People's Porches

FRESNO, Calif. (KMPH) -

People who live in a Tower District neighborhood in Fresno say surveillance cameras caught a thief in the act. None of the people who live in the neighborhood know who the man caught on camera is.

However, they did see him around their homes and cars in the middle of the night.

"I felt violated and it really made me mad because how dare he come up on my property," says Annie Goodman whose surveillance cameras caught the bad guy in the act.

Annie Goodman says she didn't realize right away that the man took something from her porch.

"I took a neighbor to a doctor's appointment and there was something sitting on my corner and I said, "Oh my gosh that looks familiar," adds Goodman, "When I came back home I picked it up and it turned out it was the knee pads that I use for gardening."

When Goodman checked her surveillance video she saw a man on her porch in the middle of the night. The cameras caught the man walk away with a handful of things from Goodman's porch, including her knee pads that he dropped in the middle of the street.

"How dare people come up on your porch and take your things. They're shopping for items on your porches," says Goodman.

Goodman says she wants to stop crime in her neighborhood, so she started a phone tree and posts on Facebook. The neighborhood also has personal surveillance cameras everywhere, so they can catch criminals in the act.

"It really helps bringing the neighbor together; it puts the neighbor back in neighborhood," says Goodman.

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CAUGHT ON CAMERA: Man Steals From People's Porches