The trend of residents placing surveillance cameras not only outside but inside their houses may pay off for a Sunnyvale homeowner who captured remarkably clear video of two burglars rifling through her home.

KRON-TV got a copy of the video, which purportedly shows the burglars meticulously going through the woman’s bedroom Friday in a home on the 900 block of East Duane Avenue before making off with personal items including clothing and electronics.

After reviewing the video, Sunnyvale police were able to identify the suspects — who remain at large. The woman in the video is 36-year-old Carrisa Barreto, and the man is 34-year-old Fernando Ricardo Angeles, both of Sunnyvale, police said.

Dressed in absurdly cliche ensembles — Barreto in tight black leather, Angeles wearing an Oakland Raiders shirt reading “money takers” — the burglars walk within inches of the camera mid-pillage, revealing their faces in immaculate detail, police said.

On Monday, Sunnyvale police said both suspects are on probation and have active warrants out for their arrests.

The video, though, is only the latest footage to hit the Internet by homeowners who willingly place cameras in their homes, many of which are hooked up to a computer and can be viewed remotely via a cloud-based server.

Last month, a Palo Alto resident’s surveillance system caught two burglars breaking into her home as her pet cats looked on.

The video — a troubling twist on the cat-video sensation — shows one of the woman’s pets watching nervously from the top of a staircase as burglars looted the home and even stole the camera as it was uploading the video.

The Chronicle’s C.W. Nevius had a different kind of run-in with a home surveillance camera. In a September column, he recounted spotting a camera at a Stinson Beach home his family rented though Airbnb for a vacation.

Nevius — who was not fully dressed at the time — noticed the camera after spotting a glowing green light in the home’s kitchen when he got up in the middle of the night for a quaff of OJ.

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