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Pleasanton police announced on Friday that three teenagers have been arrested in connection with the high-profile crime from September in which masked burglars kicked in the front door of a Vintage Hills house while the homeowner and her young son were inside — with it all caught on camera.
The teen boys, already lead suspects in a similar crime in Fremont, were booked into a juvenile detention facility on suspicion of residential burglary for the Pleasanton incident. The case was forwarded to the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office for review for formal charges within the past week, according to Pleasanton police Sgt. Steve Ayers.
The arrestees’ names were not released because they are underage, but Ayers said there were two 17-year-olds and one 15-year-old.
The case was put in the national spotlight back in September after Ring doorbell-security video of the burglars kicking in the front door with the family inside was shown across news media and went viral.
The original break-in occurred around 8:30 a.m. on Sept. 11 at a house on Burgundy Drive while one of the homeowners was upstairs taking a shower and her 9-year-old son was playing downstairs.
She told news outlets at the time she’d heard her dogs growling and a loud commotion before the masked burglars broke in. They were scared away after she started yelling at them, likely because they were not expecting anyone to be home. Although the door was damaged, nothing was taken from the home.
The homeowners shared the video footage with police, and it was also posted on social media. Detectives working to identify and apprehend the culprits also alerted neighboring law enforcement agencies about the case, Ayers said.
Then, on Halloween day, Fremont police detectives contacted Pleasanton PD to say they had arrested three juveniles in connection with a similar residential burglary in their city. Pleasanton detectives worked for weeks to collect evidence that eventually linked the trio to the Burgundy Drive break-in, according to Ayers.
The updated final police report was completed for DA’s office review on Dec. 13, Ayers said.
“This case highlights the value of partnership in public safety,” Teri Yan, PPD’s new public relations coordinator, added in a statement. “The Pleasanton Police Department recognizes the community for its proactive use of social media and neighboring law enforcement agencies for their assistance in this case.”
Good work Pleasanton police and Fremont police and thank you home owner for having video available.
Teenagers! What have the parents of these teenagers have to say for themselves?
Parents of these teenagers should be in jail.
Michael, enough with blaming parents for what their children, already teens, make bad choices like this. Plenty, plenty of great parents do their best to raise their children the right way….and regardless, some kids go left.
Deport them
To “Pleasanton Parent” who commented “deport them,” could you please reply with the news source or how you know these teenagers were born in another country… or are you just saying deport them to anywhere?
Judging by the sheer violence of these “youths” they are lucky that this headline was not “Three teens shot & killed during botched home invasion”
Play the Darwin game, win the Darwin award…
Resident001; Let me make sure I understand what you are saying. These are kids and they do dumb things sometimes, like breaking into other peoples homes in an attempt to take things that don’t belong to them. Since they are teenagers we should forgive them for being young and dumb and as they get older they will out grow this phase of their lives. On top of that we excuse the parents since they have no control over what their kids do since they can’t supervise them 24/7.
Can’t believe you really believe that garbage!
Parents? Probably are missing-in-action parents, if any exist in their lives at all. Teens? gang-related activity? What I find interesting is most of the crimes in Ptown seem to occur in Vintage Hills. Why? Was a press release out to the gangs in bay area communities that Vintage Hills is an easy target? Must be some casing going on by scouts to alert best places to hit.
The teenagers must be prosecuted and sentence to jail time for up to twenty-years with possibility of parole after ten years.
The parents should be held accountable for the actions of their teenage children through civil litigation and have background check to authenticate their capability to raise children.
A young mother and her child were threatened and freighted by these thugs, their property was damaged. If I were a judge, there would not be a single thug on the streets.
Wow, you all know so much about three people you know absolutely nothing about except their ages and their despicable behavior. You don’t know where they come from, whether they have parents in their lives now, whether they are rich or poor. You’re all just guessing.
I love the Internet. Keep projecting your bigotry onto a blank page for us to see. It helps us know your character better.
I don’t see how you can tell he’s a teen,
from his pants hanging below his underwear.
You can tell he’s a Thug, with no respect for normal decency or for the rights of others.
He wants the things society can offer, but he doesn’t want to earn them, he just wants to steal them.
And like the Thugs who break into cars, doesn’t care how much damage he does breaking into the house.
Appears he’s not too smart, he never checked to see if anyone was home, or maybe he did not care?
Like the guy who got himself killed at the Fruitvale BART station a few years ago, it is hard to imagine any sort of happy ending to this behavior. That guy was acting like a Thug, causing trouble, disrespecting authority, resisting arrest. He actually was NOT acting like a Thug, he WAS a Thug, a Thug for Life. Just Google: Oscar Grant Criminal History.
I’m pleased they were caught this time, good work!
Most likely these same Thugs have committed more crimes, and would if they get away with it.
Old enough to do the crime, old enough to do the time…
I don’t care if they’re teens, don’t care where they’re from, nor do I care about their parents. Just want them behind bars where they belong.
Well, you could tell it was a teen. His pants were hanging below his keester. Good work anyway, Fremont.
They were lucky to not have been dispatched immediately by Mr. Colt
It would be nice to have a little more info about these 3. What city are they from and any other details that might be of interest
“They were lucky to not have been dispatched immediately by Mr. Colt”
If it happened in the Bay Area the property owner probably would have been charged, the gun confiscated, and local politicians/”progressive” activists would have said it was “gun violence prevention”.
@michaelaustin
Raising kids can be so difficult. In many cases especially when it comes to impulse control, “nature” instead of “nuture” seems to take over. This is an extreme act, at the same time it’s best not to blame the parents. Some things I thought my kids would never do, they do. Kudos to your kids if they always stay on the straight and narrow, at least that you know of.
@cwm
I said this is an EXTREME act. That is self explanatory. Blaming someone for what another person does? Nope. How many people do you know who came from really good homes with really good parents, and ended up doing horrible things. If y9u don’t know of any, or have never heard of any, you need to get out more. Listen, the only people who should be held responsible here are the kids who did this, period. These kids SHOULD be forgiven, but they should also be punished. The two aren’t mutually exclusive, at least they shouldn’t be. Jail time is what is appropriate here. What I take issue with was the knee jerk reaction to blame the parents, we know nothing about the situation. You are taking it a step further and putting words in my mouth.
Yes, what they did was reprehensible. The aftermath and trauma for the 9 year old and his mom is something I have a hard time wrapping my mind around.
From what I can tell, a gun or other weapon wasn’t brandished (I could be wrong though). They are minors, I predict they’ll get 6 months to a year. I think civil litigation will be a waste of time, what will the victims get from these parents? It’s good money going after bad. I would prefer there were no thugs out on the streets either, but that isn’t how society works, and you might be surprised at who is missing from your community!