Police: 3 Would-Be Robbers Arrested
Surveillance Tape Shows Trio Knocking On Door
POSTED: Tuesday, November 3, 2009
UPDATED: 4:31 pm EST November 3,2009
NORTH LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Three people who tried to get into a North Lauderdale house in the middle of the night have been arrested, according to the Broward Sheriff's Office.
Police said that after 1:30 a.m. on Sept. 11, a surveillance camera captured images of three people knocking on the front door of a home in the 900 block of Magnolia Avenue. BSO later identified the suspects as 19-year-old Bernadette Vedder, 24-year-old David Brown and 21-year-old Keith Mitchell.
The knock awoke a 13-year-old boy inside the home, and he went to the door but did not open it.
BSO said Vedder asked the teen for his mother, claiming to be a cousin, but the teen did not recognize her voice and walked away from the door.
According to police, Mitchell got frustrated, started kicking the door and then fired two shots at it, lodging bullets in two walls inside the house. BSO said the shots kicked up wood and debris in front of the camera, and when it cleared, the three would-be robbers were gone.
An anonymous tip led police to the suspects. Vedder and Brown were arrested in September, and Mitchell was arrested Tuesday.
BSO said the three face charges of attempted armed burglary, attempted armed robbery and shooting a deadly missile.
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