A Santa Clara woman says she discovered a hidden camera inside her apartment. She called police but said their answers were almost as troubling as the discovery.

Esmeralda Mendoza said she and her family moved into their apartment on Rambla Place a few months ago. As she was cleaning recently, she couldn’t reach an air vent, so she asked her husband to help.

"Upon cleaning them he noticed that there was something shiny by the fan and that’s when he proceeded to take a look a little bit more closer," Mendoza said. "He grabbed his tools and sure enough a spy camera came out from the vent. We got really scared and he proceeded to take it out because we didn’t know if the camera was recording or not."

It was not recording, police said.

While investigators described the device as a spy came

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