SHERWOOD, Ark. — A video posted on a neighborhood Facebook group is getting a lot of attention from people in the Sherwood area.
Now, neighbors are wondering whether or not they should be worried.
Tamika Spaight said her kids were home alone when the woman walked up to her door, took a picture and then left.
She has lived in Sherwood for the past five years and has always felt secure.
"I felt safe in Sherwood. I was like, 'okay, yes, my kids can grow up here. We are good. We are fine,'" Spaight said.
She felt safe until Wednesday, June 19.
"When I finally pulled up my vivid app on my phone, that's when I saw the lady walk up," Spaight said.
Her alarm system caught video of a woman in a white van walking up to her door and snapping a picture. In a matter of 30 seconds, the lady walked away.
"You didn't give anybody time enough to come to the door. Then, on top of that, she didn't even open up the screen door. She just knocked on the screen door, so she didn't even knock on the wood door at all," Spaight said.
She was confused and worried.
"No ID was present, no clipboard, no paper. When she walked off, all she had in her hand was her phone," Spaight said.
Once she posted the video of it on a Sherwood Facebook group, she realized she wasn't the only one this has happened to. Several people began sharing the post and commenting the same thing had happened to them this past year.
"I saw that a lot of other people were dealing with the same issues in the Sherwood area," Spaight said.
John Murphy, Professional Standards Sergeant for Sherwood Police Department, said this isn't anything out of the ordinary.
"We get a lot of calls about vehicles in the neighborhood taking pictures of homes and vehicles, so it's fairly routine," he said.
Murphy said majority of them turn out to be harmless, like finance companies checking on mortgages, but that isn't always the case. Some of them could be package thieves or checking for locks on a home.
"They may be looking to be a theft or a burglar in the residential neighborhoods because we do have a lot of that during the day time," he said.
Murphy said the best thing to do is call the police department whenever this happens to you, so they can look into it and see exactly what your case might be.