A Downey homeowner was shaken up Friday after a group of burglaries broke into his house, making away with some $100,000 in cash.
The burglar, wearing masks and dark clothing, ransacked the home on Newville Avenue as they broke through the home’s backyard sliding glass door.
They managed to go through the home thoroughly and found a large sum of cash inside the homeowner’s safe as well as jewelry, purses and watches. The resident estimates he had about $100,000 inside the safe.
A neighbor’s security cameras captured three men jumping the wall then running through the neighbor’s backyard to get away.
The camera footage also showed at least one of them appeared to be wearing a vest that looks like the ones Amazon delivery employees wear.
The three criminals looked like they left in a waiting getaway car.
“I don’t open the door to anyone,” the homeowner, a retired businessman, said. “If I come home, you can’t even take a walk. They stop you and (say,) ‘Give me your cell phone’ with a gun.”
Downey police confirmed the burglary call came at around 11 a.m. Friday.
The homeowner thinks that he may have been watched because he says he got an alarm notification just a few minutes after he left the house.