Video shows teens attempting to burglarize San Bernardino County home

Surveillance video captured the moment a group of teenagers attempted to burglarize a home in San Bernardino County.

The suspects targeted the home in the 1100 block of Cedar Court in Upland around 11:30 Monday evening.

The owner, Jamie Asanovich, had gone to make an Uber Eats delivery while her elderly mother was still inside the house.

But just minutes after she left, her Ring doorbell camera alerted her that someone was at her front door.

“My mom called and she said, ‘There’s a knock at the door,’” Asanovich recalled. “I could see him at the Ring bell and I said, 'I'll be there in a minute. Don't answer the door.

Minutes later, Asanovich's mother called her back, frightened as three suspects had jumped over the fence and into their backyard.

The grandmother turned on a yard light and saw the suspects begin to remove a window screen and attempt to enter the house.

Asanovich turned her car around and immediately returned home while calling the police to report the burglary in progress.

As she approached her home, she spotted the suspects running toward a getaway car and speeding away. She decided to follow them while informing the police dispatcher of their every move.

“When they got on the highway, I kind of lost them because their lights were off,” Asanovich said.

She exited the highway onto Archibald Avenue in Rancho Cucamonga and spotted the suspects' car turning into an apartment complex near 19th Street and Hermosa Avenue.

Upland police officers arrived on scene a short time later and arrested five teenage suspects who were inside the vehicle. The driver was an 18-year-old female and the other four suspects were juveniles.

“We found flashlights, a screwdriver and a hammer,” said Sergeant Jacob Kirk of the Upland Police Department. “Some minors were released on site and one of them was detained in a juvenile center and the adult was arrested. It was for attempted burglary in a residence. »

Police said the juvenile who was arrested was on probation at the time for a previous theft-related charge.

Although the victims were not injured, Asanovich and his mother remain stunned and shaken.

“My mother turned on a light and that's when they got scared and jumped over a fence and that's when I got [back home]”, Asanovitch said. “But I'm like, 'What if the window was open and they actually came in? What were they going to do to him?'

Asanovich believes the suspects could be local high school students who knew his daughter was not in Hawaii.

Police have not confirmed a motive for the attempted burglary, but Asanovich hopes the teens learn their lesson before attempting to commit further crimes.