Surveillance cameras on a home in Woodbridge captured what could have been an attempted break-and-enter Monday afternoon.

Debra Di Benedetto posted a status on Facebook on Monday alerting people of what she called “an attempted home invasion/robbery” at her house on Gorman Avenue in the area of Major Mackenzie Drive and Weston Road.

Speaking with CTV News Toronto, Di Benedetto said that a woman was ringing the doorbell at her front door wearing a scarf and sunglasses at around 2 p.m.

“My daughter and I were home alone at the time and I was just doing some things around the house – some laundry – the doorbell rang, I wasn’t expecting anyone and neither was she,” she said.

Di Benedetto said her initial reaction was to check their surveillance cameras.

“She would ring the door bell and what was suspicious at first was when she would ring the doorbell then she would kind of cover her mouth with her scarf and turn her back away from the camera so she must have seen that there was a camera there,” Di Benedetto said.

Di Benedetto approached the door keeping it shut after the woman had been standing there for about three to five minutes and asked the woman what she wanted. The woman responded saying she was looking for a person called John at house number 48.

Di Benedetto told her she had the wrong house and the woman walked away.

After this interaction took place, Di Benedetto was also able to obtain additional surveillance footage from a neighbour which showed the two men allegedly attempting to get through the gate before the woman left the front door and they all returned to the truck at the same time.

Watching the footage back, Di Benedetto said she was shocked.

“My heart jumped out of my skin, I was immediately shaking,” she said.

Di Benedetto guessed each time the woman covered her mouth with her scarf she was communicating with two males who were inside a truck on the street.

The incident was reported to York Regional Police on Monday.

Break-and-enter one street away

York Regional Police said they are investigating the incident Di Benedetto reported as a botched break-and-enter. However, there was an actual break-and-enter one street away shortly afterwards on Monday.

Di Benedetto said she has been living in the neighbourhood for over five years and has never heard of anything along these lines happening.

A homeowner on Chatfield Drive, which intersects with Di Benedetto’s street, contacted police after returning to find their house broken into. Police received a call at around 5 p.m. for reports of several items being removed from the home on Chatfield Drive.

Police are investigating if both of these incidents were conducted by the same individuals seen in the surveillance footage.