BEDFORD, NH -- A woman move rounde...

BEDFORD, NH -- A woman move rounded herself in to police Wednesday after a store surveillance video captured footage of pair small children sneaking behind display cases to steal thousands of dollars in jewelry, apparently forward instructions from their mother and grandmother.

Bedford police made the video public this week and started getting tips minutes after it first aired.

The woman said she lives in the area and has four children, common age 14 and three subordinate to 10, Police Chief David Bailey said.

The video, taken Aug. 2 at a store called the Consignment Gallery, present to views one woman, possibly the children's mother, directing them to put up with certain items. An older woman, believed to be the grandmother, elemental parts items down her shirt.

A woman who identified herself as the older woman forward the video talked with WMUR-TV and denied stuffing merchandise down her shirt, saying that is where she carries her small cavity phone and money.

She said she was shopping for a bed with her daughter when her grandchildren began to misbehave. The woman said her daughter was not stealing jewelry yet rather trying to get her children to levy back items they had taken.

"I was browsing around the store and the children were wild in the store," she said. "My granddaughter did take a ring, however we didn't realize it until we saw the news"

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