A rash of car break-ins on Edgewood’s Hubinger Street has some neighbors on edge.
A neighbor wrote to the Independent to report that two cars had their windows smashed on Tuesday night.
Police spokesman Officer Joe Avery said three cars were broken into on Hubinger Street recently. He suggested the crimes could have been prevented by not leaving valuables in the car.
In one case, “the thief broke the window and took a HP laptop was which
was left in the car,” Avery said. In another, a iPod and a GPS unit were taken from an unlocked car. In a third case, someone smashed the window of a vehicle that was parked inside an unlocked garage. Stolen was a Dell laptop, an IPOD and a gym bag, Avery said.
There were eight car break-ins in the policing district, District 10, in the month of April, Avery said.
“I understand people become frustrated when they become victims,” wrote Avery, but “this is a crime of opportunity. People can prevent most of these break-ins by removing items from their vehicles.”
“We send out warnings several times a year about this citywide problem and people continue to leave items in their vehicles at an alarming rate,” Avery wrote.