Thieves are taking unintended invitations as residents leave car
and garage doors open, according to the Douglas County Sheriff’s
Office.
On June 20 and 21, eight break-ins were reported, most with
unlocked doors.
Four were on Braeburn Way overnight June 21. Each car was
riffled and one had miscellaneous items taken, including a GPS. The
owners didn’t say if the doors were left unlocked but they did not
report damage to the cars.
The night before, an unlocked car on Craftsbury Drive offered up
a mobile phone and a purse to thieves. Neighbors called the owner
and told her the purse was by the local mailbox.
The same night, a resident left an unlocked car in her garage
and left the door open on Saybrook Street. Her neighbors called to
say they found her purse and mobile phone.
On June 18, a car on Puma Run in Wildcat Reserve was left
unlocked in an open garage only to lose a laptop computer.
A car on Panther Trace, also in Wildcat Reserve, lost a purse
and other items sometime overnight June 20.
Sheriff Dave Weaver speaks at the community association meetings
and has spoken of the problem of unlocked garage doors, car doors
and now, gates to backyards.
“Criminals will walk into your yard, go through your side doors
into your house,” Weaver said.
The long and short of it?
“Lock your doors,” Weaver said. “All your doors, and the gate
too.”
