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Watch out porch pirates: You’re on candid cam!

Home security cameras help police; could hurt some

A hooded figure emerges from a loitering car in the dead of night before riffling through a pair of driveway-parked cars to steal one Surprise woman’s wallet.

Only a few hours earlier, a masked individual climbs from a waiting car, jogs confidently across the lawn and makes off with a delivered package left on the doorstep of another West Valley home — this time in broad daylight.

What do these incidents have in common? A doorbell camera captured both.

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