Heather Miles and her son Keehnan returned to their Virginia Village home Thursday to find two TVs stolen. Other electronics, like their cellphones, were also gone.
Miles says burglars kicked in her back door and got in and out before noon.
"Every light was on," Miles said. "Every door was open."
Denver Police came to investigate, Miles said.
They dusted for fingerprints, and left, saying there was a 20 to 1 chance of solving the crime, she said.
Miles could not wait.
"Yeah, passive is not my greatest strength," she said.
She and her son got online, and saw the crooks had played Keehnan's Xbox and made about 30 to 40 calls on Keehnan's cellphone.
Miles started checking her cellphone activity.
"I could see all of these calls were made on the 26th," she said. "I was just sitting here watching the calls come in."
A call around 10 p.m. looked suspicious, after the criminals had just called 411.
She noticed the call was placed to a Pizza Hut at Cherry Street and Colfax, Avenue. She then called the Pizza Hut herself.
"I think I said something like, 'Hi, my name is Heather, and we've been robbed. And someone just ordered a pizza from one of our stolen cellphones,'" she said.
The clerk at Pizza Hut told Miles the call came from Room 203 at the Royal Palace Hotel on Colorado Boulevard and Colfax.
Miles called police and went down to the hotel to watch police take the crooks into custody.
Police arrested two juveniles, but they did not recover all of the family's electronics.
"Watching them being arrested, and put into a police car made me feel better," she said. "There was a little bit of closure there."
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