Several Scripps Ranch neighbors are reporting attempted car thefts and vehicle break-ins after incidents over the weekend were captured on home security cameras. Surveillance video from about 4:30 a.m. Friday shows three people wearing masks and hoodies walking through the Scripps Highlands neighborhood. One resident said the group appeared to be trying to steal cars or break into them. Stream San Diego News for free, 24/7, wherever you are with NBC 7. The suspects were first discovered after the alarm on a sports car went off. The vehicle's owner, who asked to be identified only as Jessica, said someone broke a window and started the car, but an anti-theft device prevented it from being stolen. "They have masks on, so their faces can’t be seen. They each have a different hoodie," Jessica said. Jessica said she spent about four hours that day collecting surveillance videos from neighbors in an effort to piece together what happened. "So violated. Absolutely so violated," she said. Jessica later found video showing what she believes may have been the suspects' getaway car, a dark-colored sedan parked around the corner. Local She also began looking into other reported crimes and found reports of break-ins just a few blocks from her home the following night on Farmingdale. Jessica said she also saw a video posted to a Riverside-area neighborhood group that later appeared on Instagram. She believes the person seen kicking a home's front door in that video may be the same individual who tried to steal her car because of a similar hoodie. "I audibly gasped because I felt that was the same hoodie," Jessica said. Jessica said she worries the recent incidents resemble a pattern that affected the neighborhood in 2023, when a Chilean gang of home invaders targeted Scripps Ranch. During a three-month period
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