"I need to earn 84,000 yuan (US$ 12,870) a month, equal to 2,800 yuan a day and spend it carefully by 30 to 40 yuan a day for traffic fees, so that I can buy my brother a house and a car as well as build a school in the future."

A surveillance camera captures a thief stealing at a resident’s home in southwest China's Chongqing municipality on May 10, 2016. [Photo: cnr.cn]

The note seems inspiring, but it was written by a thief recently caught after breaking into someone's house.

Luo, the thief and a Sichuan native, broke into a family's home at 3:00 pm on May 10 after an elderly lady living there had taken her grandson out for half an hour.

When they returned, the grandma found that the door was no longer double locked as she was expecting. She then came into the house and discovered that the drawers had been rummaged through and that a gold necklace, a diamond ring and 400 yuan were missing, a loss estimated at 10,000 yuan.

The grandma immediately called the police, who begin an investigation with the help of video cameras installed both inside the home and outside the community.

From the footage, the police found two thieves pretending to be the residents in the community by bringing a vegetable basket and a fake magnetic card with them. Although there was no response when they swiped the card, the security guards at the gate mistook them as the residents thinking their card was merely out of function.

They then broke into the house. One of them took a knife from the kitchen and then they both searched the bedrooms. They left after five minutes. One of them who left later swiped the traces of their footprints with a towel.

Following the clues, the police soon arrested Zhang, Luo's accomplice, and with his confession, caught Luo at a rented flat. The two suspects refused to confess at first, alleging that the police had arrested the wrong persons. But they soon fell silent when the police showed them the footage.

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