Suspects have broken into or tried to break into at least four homes in the Coral Ridge neighborhood of Fort Lauderdale recently, police said.

The latest such attempted burglary happened last Friday morning, minutes after Barbara Sawisch left for work.

Just after 10 a.m. Sawisch packed up her two kids, handed them to the nanny for a morning at the park, and locked up the house. That morning, she made a point of setting the alarm.

“I had a feeling that morning that something was going to happen,” she said. Her intuition was right. Fifteen minutes after she left the house, there was a knock on the door. A young man waited for an answer, surveillance video showed. He began to look through the windows. It didn’t look as if anyone was home, and he pulled out a cell phone and began to call someone. […]