UPDATED: Cops Nab Three Suspected Burglars After Chase

Updated at 9 a.m. Saturday by Patch Field Editor Adam Townsend --

Orange County Sheriff's deputies ran down three suspected burglars Friday with the help of a helicopter.
 
Investigators hope it's these three men who were serially burglarizing one Lake Forest neighborhood around Toulon Avenue. Lt. Steve Gil said they were first spotted by undercover deputies who were surveilling the street in response to reported burglaries.

Gil said the plainclothes deputies saw two men heading toward their car with their "arms full of loot," but when they saw the law, they rushed into the car and sped off.

The deputies lost them, but the OCSD called in a helicopter. It was the presence of the helicopter that led the suspects to abandon their car, deputies speculate.

A patrol deputy called to the scene nabbed one of the men -- Cameron Cammerer, 23 -- after he ran him down in the brush of Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park.

The other two -- brothers Collin and Brenton Andrea, 22 and 24, respectively -- went through a drainage tunnel that emerged near CVS Pharmacy. 

Gil said bystanders in the parking lot noticed that the men looked suspicious and called 911 on their cell phones.

The men are suspected of at least one burglary, Gil said, but most of the property was recovered. Gil said some was lost along roadsides and in ditches as the suspects fled, however.

It's still under investigation whether the three men involved in the chase were the ones plaguing the neighborhood, Gil said.

But, he said daytime burglaries are all too common in Orange County -- especially the area's suburban bedroom communities. Gil said burglars look for empty houses, often by knocking on doors to see if anyone is home, and then take what they want.

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