EDGEWATER, Fla. – Edgewater police on Monday released photos of three persons of interest in connection with a burglary spree.
Anyone with information about the men is asked to call Edgewater police at 386-424-2000.
See photos below.
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An Edgewater woman said she woke up Tuesday morning to find that someone had stolen her car, her 4-year-old son's piggy bank and her credit cards while she and her family slept.
The Edgewater Police Department said Beth Keller and her family weren't the only ones who fell prey to a burglar targeting the neighborhood. Six unlocked vehicles in the Florida Shores subdivision were burglarized between Monday night and Tuesday morning, according to a news release.
Keller said the burglar took the screen off one of the windows at her home on Kumquat Drive, pried the window open and crawled inside.
"Stole my purse with all my wallet, my credit cards. My son's wallet. Even stole my 4-year-old's piggy bank with all his change and stuff in it. Stole my car keys right off the kitchen counter and walked out the sliding glass door and got into my vehicle like they owned the place," Keller said.
Police said the Keller's 2016 dark blue Jeep Compass was stolen. The vehicle has a Daytona State College on the lower left corner of the back window and a "nurses give intensive care" license plate frame.
Keller said she knows her stolen items can be replaced, but that doesn't make her feel any safer in the home that she shares with her two sons, ages 4 and 22, and her disabled mother.
"I'm scared to leave my family here and not be able to protect them. I'm scared to go bed. I mean, they have my house keys. I can't even secure my house. They can just use the key and get right in. I'll be changing the locks," Keller said.
Police released surveillance video Tuesday afternoon of a man wearing a T-shirt, shorts, gloves, a hat and sneakers pulling on the door handles of two vehicles in the neighborhood. He runs to a vehicle, possibly a truck or SUV, parked in the road after he is unable to gain access to the locked vehicles, video shows.
Authorities said that incident is related to the burglary at Keller's home.
Keller called the person or people responsible for the crime "heartless," especially for stealing her son's piggy bank.
"I would do anything to help anyone. But to come into my home where my family is asleep and steal what little we have, including my 4-year-old's piggy bank, how low do you have to be of a person?" Keller said.
Edgewater police have asked anyone who recognizes the man in the surveillance video to call 386-424-2000.