A family from Nuevitas, in Camagüey, fully recovered their belongings after a nighttime robbery, thanks to a method that was as simple as it was effective: pressing the bell button on the key of the stolen motorcycle to track it by sound in the vicinity of their home.
Anyi Karla Meléndez Ramírez narrated the incident in a Facebook video that garnered over 30,000 views. According to her testimony, at one in the morning, a group of two or three criminals broke into her boyfriend's house after shattering the fence and a window. "They were already prepared," she stated.
The thieves acted stealthily. The house is divided into two apartments. In one, the couple and their pets slept; in the other, the mother, sister, and grandmother of the boyfriend. No one heard anything.
"We are on the first floor and you couldn't hear anything at all, the dogs didn't bark, nobody in the neighborhood saw anything, and there was power at that moment," the young woman described.
The haul was significant: a scooter, a television, an EcoFlow —a portable power station that can cost between 549 and over 1,150 dollars—, three portable fans, and a coffee maker. The criminals left behind a pair of shoes that were on top of the scooter because they did not realize they were from an expensive brand.
It was the groom's mother who discovered the theft when she left her room and noticed the absence of the television. The sister, seeing that the motorcycle was also missing, started to scream. "Can you imagine if my boyfriend's sister had gone out and found a thief? They could have even killed them," said Anyi Karla, worried.
When dawn broke, the police and close friends arrived at the house to offer support. A friend of Anyi Karla's boyfriend had an idea that changed everything. He took the key to the scooter and began to circle the area, pressing the doorbell repeatedly, listening for any sound.
“Thus they arrived at the booth in front of El Balkán (a nightclub in Nuevitas), which that booth is like a refuge, and everything was there,” the young woman recounted.
The police arrived with a tracking dog that led them to a nearby apartment, but they did not find the culprits. The thieves remain at large.
The case illustrates the serious wave of insecurity affecting Camagüey in 2026: the local government acknowledged over 600 offenses in the first half of the year, with four out of ten related to serious crimes such as burglary, crimes against life, and cattle theft.
The EcoFlow has become one of the most coveted items by thieves in Cuba precisely because it is the most widely used home solution for surviving power outages.
In recent days, neighbors in Camagüey took it upon themselves to capture a thief in the backyard of a house due to the police's delay, and on September 6, another daytime robbery was reported in the same province.
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