Have you seen this man?

If so, Jacob Stone, the man behind catchfremontthief.com (and the police) want to hear from you.

According to Stone, last weekend, the man pictured above broke into Stone's car—which was parked at Market Time grocery in Fremont—and stole thousands of dollars worth of camera equipment.

When Stone, 28, arrived back at his car to find all of his stuff was missing, he like many car prowl victims, was stunned.

Stone contacted police, but when he realized that the grocery store's surveillance cameras had captured the whole thing on tape, he decided to do a bit of sleuthing on his own, and asked the store to let him review their surveillance footage.

"They were really helpful and let me have the run of the roost and look through the security footage at my leisure," Stone says. "I sat there and pieced it together. Out of my own sick interest in finding out who this guy was."

With photos of the alleged thief in hand, Stone decided to get the word out about the crime.

"Once I got back to my home, it just dawned on me, let’s make a flier," he says. "The flier translated into 'I better make a website' and then Facebook. It just kind of snowballed from there."

When asked why he didn't just leave the investigation up to police, Stone was surprisingly pragmatic. "I feel like there’s probably not enough resources to give this the attention that this deserves. I have the capacity to do what I’ve done, and I have the wherewithal, so why not help this thing get concluded faster," Stone says. "This is a small enough town that people are seeing him and saying “I know who that is.”

Since Stone's site went online, he says he's received several tips about the suspect. "I’ve had someone email in who said he was in high school with him. That was a surprising one," Stone says. "I don’t ever have any plans or desire to meet him or mete out my own justice. I just want to help the police and do anything I can to catch him."

While Stone has been conducting his own investigation, police have been following up on the case as well. Stone says police have recovered some of his equipment from area pawn shops, but Stone doesn't expect to get all of his stuff back, specifically a pair of pants a belt with sentimental value. "Do you really have to take my pants and belt? It’s a bummer," he says. "It’s a nice belt I bought in argentina."