Seattle police arrested three teens with alleged gang ties last week after they were caught breaking in to a Mount Baker home.

Officers were called out to the 1300 block of 30th Ave. S at around 4:25 p.m. on Monday, after a homeowner called police to report that a group of young men were hanging out in a neighbor's back yard.

Police arrived and found five teens in the yard, and saw that the back door and windows to the home had been damaged.

Police took three of the teens into custody at the home, but two others fled, and were able to lose police by running through a greenbelt near Coleman Park.

When officers asked the teens what they were doing at the house, one of them bluntly answered “We was robbing the place."

The report states when officers checked the house they found damage to the rear door, dead-bolt lock and door jamb, as well as a partially open window missing its screen.

A witness at the scene told police that approximately half an hour earlier she got a knock at her door from a six foot black male with an Afro who asked "if she needed anything," the report says. The woman declined the man's offer, and watched as he headed towards her neighbor's house.

The police report indicates the teens are members of a gang, but does not provide any information about which gang the teens belong to.