Burglar crawls through doggy door to get into Las Vegas Valley house – VIDEO

This Las Vegas caper would go like "Goldilocks and the Three Bears," if not for a few key differences.

In this modern version, there are two intruders instead of one.

Like in the fairy tale, somebody slept in a bed. But in this story, when the family got home, no one was there.

Nobody ate porridge this time either, but someone did drink a bunch of booze.

To add insult to injury, somebody even went to the bathroom in this northwest valley home without flushing.

Enter the Metropolitan Police Department, which is seeking the culprits. Officers say they stole jewelry along with trashing the place.

Fortunately for investigators, there's video.

Footage provided to the Review-Journal appears to show the break-in, about a half mile from the Santa Fe Station. According to time stamps, it lasted several hours.

A piece of the video, from Sept. 13, shows a young man, hammer in hand, sliding head-first into the house through a doggy door. There wasn't video available of what happened once he got inside.

But the homeowners, who were traveling when the burglary happened, said the man went through "every room." They came back to missing jewelry and empty containers where beer and whiskey had been. A cosmetic travel bag had been burned.

Coincidentally — or maybe not — footage from outside the house shows the man wearing a T-shirt bearing the phrase "Crooks."

Another young man is shown later when it appears the pair are trying to get out of the yard by climbing the cinder block wall. He is stockier, and there was no video of him trying to go through the pet door. The larger of the two also can't seem to make it over the wall.

A another frame in the video shows the two outside the wall. One tosses an item back over.

Video from the night before shows someone ringing the doorbell as he fidgets with a cellphone.

ADT Security Services could not be reached for comment for this story, but the homeowner said the company reported motion in inside the house triggering sensors. Flashlights triggered cameras outside.

The security company sent a guard who rang the doorbell, the homeowner and police said, but doors and gates were locked.

Metro secured the house and took a report two days later after the homeowners cut their vacation short.

Instead of Goldilocks yelling for help, it's the police and homeowners who need it.

Anyone with information can call Metro's Property Crimes Section at 702-828-3267. To remain anonymous, contact Crime Stoppers at 702-385-5555 or www.crimestoppersofnv.com.

Contact Ricardo Torres at rtorres@reviewjournal.com and 702-383-0381. Find him on Twitter: @rickytwrites