Teddi Mellencamp is speaking out after her Los Angeles home was targeted in an attempted burglary.
On Tuesday (July 22), the 44-year-old Two Ts in a Pod podcast host and her estranged husband Edwin Arroyave released a joint statement regarding the incident that occurred the night before.
Keep reading to find out more…“We are grateful that everyone is unharmed. While we are shaken, we are fortunate to have the latest in home security systems which scared off the intruders,” they wrote on Instagram. “Authorities were alerted and swiftly responded. We appreciate everyone’s heightened concern in light of recent criminal activities in our area, but we are safe.”
Teddi and Edwin, 48, were both at the Encino home with their children – Slate, 12, Cruz, 10, and Dove, 5 – when the incident occurred.
The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed to People that the attempted break-in occurred around 10:15pm local time and that the suspects had “fled the location” when officers arrived.
The suspects were described as “two males wearing black-hooded sweatshirts” and they left the scene in a black BMW.
“Suspects are still outstanding and officers completed an attempted burglary report,” the police shared.
Edwin – who founded the home security company Skyline Security – also shared footage of the suspects on the property on Instagram.
“The idea for Skyline Security came from the trauma of having a gun held to my head at 18,” Edwin wrote in the caption. “The ability to save lives and protect families is the genesis of what I do.”
He also told NBC Los Angeles that he was upstairs with his family when he got an alert from a motion-detecting camera installed on the property. He added that intruders were inside the home for about 20 seconds before fleeing the scene.
“Just blessed and grateful that nothing happened,” Edwin told the outlet. “With things like that, people get freaked out and things can happen. Luckily, nothing happened, they just ran out.”
The attempted break-in at Teddi and Edwin‘s home comes less than two weeks after an American Idol executive and her husband were killed by an intruder at their nearby Encino residence.
Source: justjared.com