HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – A smash-and-grab thief hit a number of vehicles in Hollywood’s Emerald Hills neighborhood in a single day Friday, main police to analyze.
According to police and neighbors, the criminal hit 10 vehicles close to the 3500 block of North thirty first Terrace.
“It’s a little disappointing that something like this could happen when we do have 24-hour police presence here in the neighborhood,” resident Justin Zeig mentioned.
Surveillance video presentations the suspect checking automobile doorways.
“This is actually the day that my wife and I took the kids to school together,” Zeig mentioned. “My wife turned to me and says, ‘Hey, why’d you throw everything all over the floor of my car?’ I said, ‘I didn’t touch anything in your car.’ So it was clear that somebody had broken in.”
Homeowners’ affiliation President Tom Jahnes mentioned, “A white Hyundai that appeared to be driven by one single person came into my driveway and entered both of my cars and stole some items from from the vehicles.”
Police had been on the scene a lot of the morning investigating.
“I think the good news is that we’ve got an excellent amount of police activity here in the morning,” Jahnes mentioned. “They’re clearly following up on this. I’ve got great video images that are also following up on we have a license plate reader as well that we purchased here in the community to help the police department in the case of an unfortunate incident like this.”
He added, “I’m confident that they’ll get the data that they need from those kinds of resources and, as a community, I think we will also be more on the lookout for this kind of behavior in the future.”
Anyone with information is requested to name Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477.
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