Surveillance video captured someone forcing their way into a South Florida jeweler’s home, and she believes they were after her expensive jewelry.
Ayana Dyce was in disbelief, and then she saw her surveillance footage. She could see and hear someone breaking into her North Miami Beach home.
“At first I was like, what?” Dyce said.
No one was at Dyce’s house last Friday when someone forced the back door open. The alarm went off, but she said the suspect stayed inside her home for several minutes.
Her mom, who has access to a smart speaker inside the house, was telling the person who broke in to get out.
“(She said) ‘Leave, what are you doing here?’” Dyce said. “What were they looking for?”
Dyce has sold jewelry in Atlanta and South Florida for three years. She’s also a jewelry TV host. Then it clicked.
“They’re looking for that bag of jewelry I have in the house,” Dyce said.
She also thinks someone who’s worked in her house may have noticed the jewelry.
“They ransacked my room, they knew exactly where to go,” Dyce said. “In the back of my mind, I’m like, did someone follow me home from the exchange one day? Has someone seen me taking out bags out my car?”
When Dyce got home, she searched to see if the person had stolen anything.
“I have an idea where the big items are, but what small item or few things are missing, I’m still trying to figure out what it was,” Dyce said.
Dyce said she just wants to feel safe, but more importantly, she wants this person caught.
“I want the person to be identified, I want this neighborhood to know it’s a safe place to live,” Dyce said. “I don’t want this to be a pattern of behavior that someone thinks there are vulnerable old people who live in this neighborhood they can take advantage of.”
North Miami Beach Police said the case is being investigated, and they are still waiting for an inventory of any items taken.
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