Caught On Camera: Man Stealing Plants From East Hollywood Home Implies Bigger Problem

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Perry Pustam was stunned erstwhile helium watched video of a alien stealing respective of his Desert Rose plants from his East Hollywood location aboriginal Wednesday.  

His location video surveillance strategy captured it.

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“It was astir 4:15 a.m. Some feline pulled up, opened his car trunk, decided to travel and swipe 3 of our plants past leave, similar it’s nothing,” Pustam said.

He worries if someone’s that bold, what volition hap next.

“The bigger representation present is, if they tin bash that 1 day, what are they going to bash the adjacent day. They’re going to travel backmost and say, ‘Oh, I got distant with this. Maybe I should get immoderate more,’” helium explained.

Perry’s connected to thing there.  

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Neighborhood crimes, similar structure pirates stealing packages oregon radical rummaging done unlocked cars, are immoderate of the astir communal crimes.  

“They mightiness look trivial,” explained Alex Piquero, who is the caput of Criminology astatine the University of Miami, “but they’re not, due to the fact that if they’re undetected and unarrested by the officers, past that not lone could summation successful frequency, but besides it could pb offenders to beryllium much emboldened, ‘Oh look, I got distant with this, I tin get distant with adjacent much adjacent time,’” helium said.

He says the champion mode to woody with petty transgression is to study it, adjacent if you deliberation it’s minor.

“If nary one’s calling attraction to the problem, the occupation tin fester, it tin grow, it tin go much serious. What we request to bash arsenic citizens is alert the constabulary section truthful they tin unopen it down arsenic soon arsenic possible,” Piquero said.

One different prevention tip, assistance the neighbors by looking retired for thing suspicious.

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“Remember, the constabulary tin not beryllium everywhere,” Piquero explained, “so we request each different to assistance constabulary our ain neighborhood. And the much eyes connected the streets, the much eyes connected porches, the amended disconnected we volition each be.”

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