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UPDATE: Juice bar break-in suspects turned in by parents

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Virginia Beach, Va. - The parents of a teenager caught breaking into The Green Cat in Virginia Beach in September has turned their son in.

According to employees at the juice bar, the parents of the teen took action and called the store after seeing the report on Newschannel 3.

The face of the young man was one of the last things surveillance cameras at The Green Cat,  captured before it was smashed but that wasn't the only thing it recorded.

Right before 2:30 a.m., the camera caught two young men walking into the back patio of the store. In the video you can see the two try to get into the business, but its locked. Then they go to into the freezer and start taking out food. They eventually spot the camera in the corner. One of the young men throws food at it, while the other climbs on top of furniture and hits it repeatedly with a planter until it shatters. Employees say that after the camera goes out the destruction continued.

Once parents saw the footage, they called the store and offered to pay for all of the damages. In addition to the payment, the two teens have agreed to work at the store for an entire day over the weekend.