Break-in caught on video

A new father feels a little uneasy after his car was broken into outside his Kelowna home earlier this week.

Brandon Stearns recently installed a surveillance camera outside his home on Capistrano Peaks Crescent in Kelowna's Quail Ridge neighbourhood after he had heard some of his neighbours had issues with people snooping around, and his own car had been previously rummaged through.

Just after 3 a.m. Wednesday morning, a person in a hoodie and hat walked up to Stearns' car sitting in the driveway and opened the unlocked door.

After poking around in the car for about a minute, the thief made off with some loose change and a pair of sunglasses, before peering in a locked SUV also in the driveway.

The person then wandered over to the neighbour's driveway and poked around the vehicles there.

Stearns says while he didn't lose much of value, it was “creepy” to see the thief creeping around his home, on the quiet residential street he's lived on for more than six years.

“You don't really expect any sort of crime. It's not the most advantageous place for a vehicle to get in or out, but certainly people that want to walk up there and quietly snoop through people's vehicles and walk back down the hill, I guess there's that opportunity,” he said.

And with his six-month-old daughter inside the home, it was all the more upsetting.

Stearns says the police are unable to do much following the theft, as the person's face is not visible in the video.