A 4-month-old puppy was returned to her owners after the media broadcasted surveillance video showing a boy stealing the dog from a Coral Springs home.
The theft happened just after 11:30 a.m. Sunday at a home in the 4100 block of Northwest 78th Lane.
The video shows the boy reaching over a chain-link fence in the back yard to play with the poodle mix, named Lily.
He is then seen picking up the puppy and leaving the area.
Lily’s owners, Cassandra Ruise and her sister, Crystal Ruise, said Lily had not yet been microchipped and she did not have a collar on at the time she was taken.
The value of the puppy is $600.
According to Coral Springs police spokesman Joe McHugh, Lily was returned Monday afternoon after the 13-year-old boy's mother turned her son in to police.
Police said the boy saw the surveillance video and admitted to stealing the dog, saying that he took her because he knew that his mother would not buy him one.
Police said the Ruise sisters refused to press charges against the boy and are just happy to have their puppy back.
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