When the Cameras Aren’t Enough: PRO-tect’s Devin Morgan Talks CeeDee Lamb Burglary on KLIF

Cowboys wide receiver CeeDee Lamb was more than 1,200 miles away at training camp in Oxnard California, on July 31, when someone broke a side window at his Fairview home and walked out with roughly $300,000 in high-end personal property. He wasn't the target of a random smash-and-grab. He was the target of a schedule, and that distinction is exactly why PRO-tect's Chief of Strategic Intelligence, Devin Morgan, was invited onto KLIF on short notice to help Dallas listeners make sense of what's happening in their own backyard.

Not an isolated break-in

Lamb's case fits a pattern that's been building for two years. In February 2025, federal prosecutors in Tampa charged seven Chilean nationals tied to a South American crime ring with burglarizing the homes of professionald atheletes, including Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce, and Joe Burrow, while those players were traveling for away games during the 2024 season. Investigators say the group made off with more than $2 million in stolen goods. NBA star Luka Dončić and NHL forward Tyler Seguin were hit the same way. Chilean authorities arrested additional suspects wanted by the FBI in connections with the scheme as recently as May of this year.

Whether Lamb's burglary is the work of that same network or a copycat crew, is still an open question. Fairview police haven't released enough details to say for certain, and Morgan was careful on-air not to speculate, but as he put it, the distinction may matter less than people think:

"This original crew has shown the value to the criminal, that the risk is worth the reward on their end of it. So whether it's a copycat or not, it's still a real threat, shown just recently again."

Why athletes are easy marks

The uncomfortable truth Morgan laid out for KLIF's audience is that fame and money don't buy immunity. In some ways, they do the opposite.

"A lot of these athletes and some of these bigger names fall into a little bit more of a trap than the average person," Morgan explained. "The whole world knows their schedule. It's easy to know when they are and aren't home, and unfortunately, just because they have money and exposure, doesn't make them immune to these types of criminal activities."

Game schedules, training camp locations, and travel itineraries are public information for professional athletes in a way they simply aren't for most homeowners. That's a gap criminals have learned to exploit, and it's part of why cases like Lamb's keep surfacing around the same time every year, right as players head out for camp or road trips.

Asked whether an inside connection could be involved, Morgan didn't rule it out, but he wasn't pointing fingers, either.

"It's tough to tell, not knowing exactly what the setup is. There's always the opportunity that it could be a bit of an inside job. Not making any allegations at all, but you never really know."

The doorbell camera trap

Perhaps the most useful, and most surprising, moment of the interview came when Morgan addressed the security measure almost everyone already has: the video doorbell.

"A lot of people fall into the trap of buying a couple off-the-shelf security cameras and figuring that's enough." he said. "The cameras are great. I've got them around my house, and I recommend everybody does, but unless you're setting that up as a layered system and actually taking it seriously, a lot of people will see that Ring doorbell as an opportunity, because it kind of signals that you don't really know what your gaps are."

In other words, a single visible camera can do the opposite of what it's meant to do. To a trained eye, it can read as evidence that a home has basic protection and nothing more: an invitation to look for the gaps, rather than a deterrent.

Turning a home into a hard target

So what does real protection look like? For Morgan and the team at PRO-tect, it starts with what we call a Threat and Vulnerability Assessment, or TVA. "That's something we really try to bring to a clients attention," he said. "Because the cameras are great, but that's only one step. We're looking at your lighting, the locks on your doors, the windows and more. Really trying to make you a hard target."

A TVA looks at a property the way an intruder would: sight-lines, entry points, lighting gaps, lock quality, and how all of it works (or doesn't) as a single system. The goal isn't to sell more cameras. It's to identify the specific weaknesses a criminal would look for and close them before they're found the hard way.

Devin Morgan brings two decades of military intelligence and counterintelligence experience to his role, including service as a U.S. Navy Counterintelligence Agent, and now leads strategic intelligence for PRO-tect alongside his role with partner firm, ThirteenAlpha. It's that background, reading a target the way an adversary would, that made him the right voice for KLIP to call when a story like CeeDee Lamb's breaks close to home.

If your home, family, or business could be exposed the same way, a Threat and Vulnerability Assessment is the place to start. Request a confidential consultation with PRO-tect and find out where your gaps really are, before someone else does.