CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV)- Emergency crews were kept busy overnight checking on tripped alarms thanks to heavy storms in the area.

When many people think of severe storms, they imagine the night sky being lit up like it was on fire, blinding rain or downed trees.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police see burglar alarms.

Another round of heavy weather came rolling through the area around 12:30am on Wednesday, bringing with it air-to-ground lightning strikes every few seconds, and rainfall coming down in buckets.

But with all of that, the headache didn't turn out to be massive damage, it was the power surges that came along with the storm system.

Officers said they responded to calls at several homes and businesses overnight.  Most checked out to be nothing.

When the fire department rolled up to a blaring alarm at the 7/11 convenience store off of Reames Road in north Charlotte however, they spotted smoke inside.

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CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV)- Police in Charlotte arrested three people Thursday after an alert neighbor saw them running from a home they had broken into and called 911.

Officers responded to a breaking and entering call at a home on Swearngan Road in northwest Charlotte around 3:30 p.m., according to a news release from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department.

The neighbor who had called 911 told officers he saw three people running from the victim's house and through several neighboring yards before getting into a vehicle and leaving the area.

A short time later an officer stopped a vehicle on Beatties Ford Road that matched the description given by the neighbor.

Rondreaus Cureton, 23,  Jerry McCorey, 22, and Chantelle Pauley, 20, were all identified by the neighbor as the three people he saw running from the home, according to police.