A man caught on surveillance video stealing food, paperwork, and other items on June 20, 2024, from a Fort Worth daycare is now in police custody. One of the daycare's owners, Cliff Sparks, tracked down and caught the thief hours after the break-in. Fort Worth Police later arrested 33-year-old Samuel Whitesides and charged him with burglary of a building. Sparks' wife, Alexandrea Jones-Sparks, owns and operates The Learning House Early Childcare Center. The couple has launched a GoFundMe page to restock the facility's refrigerators so they can feed the children they care for. "I feel violated," Jones-Sparks said. "I have to regroup. I have to explain to the kids why things look out of whack." The facility's surveillance cameras start rolling at night, after the children leave. Around 1:30 a.m. Thursday, cameras caught the man break a thin, stained-glass window and squeeze inside The Learning House. He knocked over and broke a memorial dedicated to the deceased child of a donor who gave the daycare its books. The 33-year-old then rifled through a desk and attempted to disconnect a computer. When he failed to unhook the monitor, he began stuffing daycare paperwork into a sack. Sparks says the burglar also took a first-aid kit, a lamp, an essential oil diffuser, and an Amazon device the children used for music. "We couldn't even do praise and worship today because we didn't have our music box for the children," he said. Video recorded by another camera shows the man rummage through refrigerators inside the daycare's kitchen, stuffing mostly frozen food into a bag. Later, the 33-year-old poured soda from cans in a cooler into an empty milk jug he found in the play area. "There could be more stuff missing that we don't even know about," Sparks said. The 33-year-old spent more than 20 minutes inside the daycare, video shows. Sparks called the police after finding the broken window Thursday. FULL STORY: https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/crime/fort-worth-daycare-owner-tracks-down-burglar-who-raided-refrigerators-theft-texas/287-a756cbef-1b6d-4c2b-9cc0-f4c9d9cf0ba4