PHONE FOUND BURIED WITH CAMERAEXPOSED IN QUEENS YARD, RESIDENT SAYS #news #breakingnews#shorts

Neighbors say they found this duct-taped phone with the camera lenses exposed. All of this happening in the Forest Hills neighborhood. And as Christy Kalishian explains, it's part of a trend we've seen across the country.

The device was located right here.

Mary Kehoe is talking about this, what looks like an Android phone covered in black tape with only its camera exposed, she found outside of her Forest Hills home of 35 years in late May. She called police who took the device and say it was a phone connected to a charger buried in her lawn. Why us? I had lots of things going through my head as to why they chose our lawn but realizing we are in the middle of the block. We've seen this before in California, Massachusetts and even locally

in New Jersey and Scarsdale, where police say devices illegally surveilling neighborhoods are hidden in lawns, tracking down neighbors' patterns, waiting for the chance to burglarize their homes. tracking down neighbors' patterns, waiting for the chance to burglarize their homes. If you're watching this neighborhood, it's watching you too.