Video captures break-in
—Photo courtsey CLEVER LOOP/YOUTUBE This still image isolated from a video posted to YouTube shows Bonner County sheriff's deputies leading Devin Michael William Check out of a Priest River home he broke into last month.
PRIEST RIVER — A video has been posted to video-sharing website YouTube showing the arrest of a man who was caught burglarizing a Bonner County home last month.
A title card at the start of the 1-minute, 20-second video informs the viewer that a vacationing landowner had just landed in Phoenix from Mexico, turns on his smartphone and receives alerts that a break-in is in progress at his home.
The video cuts to a man peering through a sliding window and then emerge up a flight of steps in the home. Another title card advises that the homeowner alerts authorities from the airport and that the suspect is holed up in the home, prompting sheriff's deputies to deploy a K-9 unit.
“The rest is K-9s and cuffs,” a title card reads.
The video shows three deputies calling into the home through an open door as a tethered K-9 barks. The section of surveillance footage shows the suspect being led from the home in handcuffs.
A closing title card shares the “good news” that nothing was stolen during the break-in.
The video was posted to YouTube by CleverLoop, which markets home security cameras that sync up with smartphones.
The break-in occurred on Woods Road east of Priest River on Feb. 25, according to a dispatch log.
Sheriff's officials identified the perpetrator of the break-in as Devin Michael William Check.
It turns out that the relative was aware Check was wanted on a warrant when he spotted Check on his home's security system and called law enforcement.
Check, 26, was not charged in connection with the break-in, according to the Idaho Statewide Trial Courts Automated Records System.
Check, however, is awaiting arraignment on charges that he burglarized a vehicle parked at a snowmobile trailhead on East River Road on Jan. 2 and using a stolen bank card to run up $281 in purchases at a store and a restaurant at Priest Lake.
Check is charged with burglary, grand theft, petty theft and unauthorized use of a financial transaction card in connection with the vehicle break-in. He is also charged with a possessing a stolen vehicle from Spokane. The stolen vehicle was stashed on the property of a relative and Check allegedly confessed to stealing the car, according to court documents.
Check is being held at the Bonner County Jail in lieu of $85,000, according to the Idaho Supreme Court Data Respository.