Woman's home broken into, iPad stolen, then returned with a selfie of someone

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A local woman who had her home broken into and iPad stolen said she got it back, but with a surprise selfie.

"I was at work and my phone kept going off, telling me someone was on my porch," says Ida Uffelman, who then called her mom to go check it out. 
 
"I noticed the door is open, and that's when I heard the noise in the kitchen," said Donna Uffelman, Ida's mother.

After she ran to the front and called police, Donna Uffelman noticed the man was in her daughter’s bedroom.

“He opened the blind to her bedroom and looked out at me,” Donna Uffelman said.

And the two locked eyes.

“The nerve of him to sit there and stare at me like he had control of her home,” Donna Uffelman said.

After several minutes inside, Donna Uffelman said the man took off with an iPad before police got there. Later that same night, Ida said she was able to track down her iPad through an app.

“He was three blocks over on Royal and Cassat,” Ida Uffelman said.

Uffelman said when police got there, a man told them he bought the iPad from someone who purchased it on the streets. And when Uffelman got her iPad back, she noticed someone listened to her music, and there was a selfie of a stranger.

“I hate this feeling, I should feel safe here and I don’t,” Ida Uffelman said.

Uffelman now has more surveillance cameras around her home and additional security equipment.

Cox Media Group