Posted on 05/01/2025 8:00:26 PM PDT by george76
A Southern California homeowner discovered a hidden camera disguised with fake grass on his property — part of a growing trend in which burglars plant covert cameras in yards in the area to monitor homes and track when residents leave...
George Nguyen, who is a homeowner in West Covina, California, was watering the hedges in his front yard after dark on Friday (April 25) when he noticed a light coming from one of the bushes.
However, when Nguyen investigated further, he discovered that the light was coming from a well-hidden device — with a lens and a green light — facing his home camouflaged in fake grass. He saw the lens and the green light.
Nguyen covered the lens with his thumb and moved the camera, which he estimated to be 10 inches long and about 4 inches high, so it faced away from his home. He then called West Covina Police immediately. When cops responded to the scene, they confirmed that it was a secret camera that was being used to monitor the comings and goings at Nguyen’s house.
Police have not yet identified the suspect or suspects who hid the camera in the Nguyens’ front yard in West Covina.
A Growing Trend for Hidden Cameras..
The use of hidden surveillance devices by burglars is becoming an increasingly common tactic — not just in West Covina, but across various parts of Southern California — as criminals plant covert cameras in yards to monitor homes and track when residents come and go.
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another camera was discovered in the area last month, positioned to face a home. Authorities are still investigating whether the two incidents are connected and no arrests have been made. While it differed in type from the camera found in Nguyen’s home, it raised similar concerns.
ABC News also reports that in the past year, a camera disguised as a flower was found in Chino Hills, and cameras camouflaged into landscaping were found in Alhambra, Santa Barbara, and Lost Hills.
Law enforcement agencies say these covert devices are increasingly favored by burglars looking to surveil homes and determine when they’re unoccupied. According to the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, many of these cases have been tied to so-called “burglary tourism” groups from South America, who travel to the region specifically to commit crimes.
“We believe it’s consistent with burglary crews operating in Southern California,” Sgt. Steven Spagon of West Covina Police Department tells San Gabriel Valley Tribune.
Rib-eyes and T-bones, you say? When, exactly, were you planning on that fishing trip? 😆
The light on the camera makes me suspicious that the the story is fictional. But if true, the best way to handle it is to leave the camera there, load the car with suitcases and drive away with the wife all in front of the camera, immediately walk back to the house from an angle hidden from the camera, then let the bodies fall where they may.
I think it was placed by the HOA undercover investigations unit.
Sure.... but does that contract allow cameras in the bedroom?
his involvement seem the most likely. watching to see what type of flag is in your yard and if the trash is taken out at the right time...not to mention exactly how many people live in your house. rules you know.
Based on the picture posted in this thread,,,
The only thing that makes sense is an ignorant someone wants to inflict fear on someone else who is also ignorant.
As mentioned already by others in this thread it does not pass the smell test.
It smells like the many videos on the intertubes claiming their fiction is fact. Anyone spending for a 4g cellular or WiFi camera can afford black tape to cover LEDs on cameras.
Show me a video of a teardown of that camera before I will bother to worry. If anyone reading this finds one use a hammer to open it and look inside and take photos documenting the process.
Hidden cameras DO EXIST but not with LEDs that light up revealing their location.
“Invite a few friends over, wait for your ‘guests’...”
Good idea. Clearly leave home the normal way (front door, garage, etc.) and then secretly return via back door with “guests”.
The majority of JOE Pedo’s “20 Million Illegal Alien Invaders have openly admitted they didn’t come here to do “slave labor”. They were doing that where they came from. They admit they came here to “make the big bucks off of the gringos”. Bienvenido Amigos!
or come around behind the camera, disable it. Then with a clear fishing line or fine wire place a trip wire and some “glitter”....or anything else. A tarp, shovel and lye should clean up the glitter and the world is left a better place..... or call the cops.
The cops and legal system will definitely take care of this “potential” for crime...just like they do on television.
I can visualize that scene exactly about Alice Kramden. I am old enough 😄
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Sure, but theirs won't be easy to find. The Feds will also place cameras with telephoto lenses on nearby property.
I suppose next you'll be telling me that atomic bombs don't have LED countdown timers displayed on their outer casings.
As far as I can tell, all bombs have countdown timers, not just atomic bombs. Bomb makers also use a standardized color code for the wiring. Also, shooting the rear half of any vehicle with a pistol results in an enormous fiery explosion that flips the vehicle end over end.
You can learn a lot from TV and movies.
I also learned that if you jump up in the air at the right moment, you can avoid being shredded by an 81mm mortar shell.
The homeowner might want to have a word with his landscaper/south American burglary tourist.
And if you run and dive, you can avoid harm from an explosion that destroys a building, even though almost every explosion happens three separate times in about half a second.
That’s okay, Jesus is watching the burglars.
Although Jesus is kind of a funny name for a Rottweiler.
Indeed and you did notice the backhoe by the garage didn’t you it’s for you also.
This DailyMail article has large photos of several types of cameras made to be hidden in shrubbery:
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