The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department released on Wednesday undated photos of a man and a woman that inexplicably appeared in the online account of a Santa Clarita woman days after thieves reportedly broke into her house and ransacked the place. The photos showed two people who were presumed to be taking "selfie" portraits and mistakenly uploaded these pictures in the cloud account of the Southern California burglary victim.

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According to Deputy Joshua Dubin, the couple in the photographs have yet to be identified as the actual perpetrators involved in the crime. Upon interrogation, police concluded that the victim had no connection with the people in the pictures. Despite the lack of clear and convincing evidence against the man and the woman, however, both are still considered as "persons of interest".

"Did they buy stolen property? I don't know. Or are they the residential burglary suspects?" Dubin shared. "There needs to be an explanation as to why their selfies are showing up on this person's cloud account," he added.

Police records show that the victim was said to have discovered her home looted on July 30, 2014. A screen was found to have been cut open to gain entrance in the Newhall apartment complex. In the inventory of things stolen from her place, investigators listed cash, jewelry, and other electronic gadgets, such as cellphone and tablet, lost presumably due to the break-in. Days after the incident, the victim discovered uploaded pictures of the couple when she logged into her cloud computer account. All pictures of the man and woman were taken after the reported robbery. At present, Dubin states that the case investigators are in the process of determining whether the persons in the uploaded photographs are the culprits or if they merely bought stolen property.   

"Sometimes multiple devices linked to one account so where you travel if you have wifi cell service photo taken auto settings it would be uploaded to Cloud," clarified Dubin. In addition, the uploaded photos had embedded code information. This data proved to be useful in the ongoing investigation. As of late Wednesday, authorities believe that they have already identified one of the people included in the pictures.

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