COPS CORNER: Car burglary victim kept car unlocked so thieves could just open the door

Also in Cops Corner: Visitors' car stolen at local condo complex

By Jonathan Simmons
| 3:26 p.m. February 26, 2016

Palm Coast Observer
Cops Corner

Feb. 20

Car burglary victim kept car unlocked so thieves 'could just open the door'

1:10 p.m. 100 block of Westbury Lane. Burglary from a motor vehicle: A 54-year-old man called the Sheriff's Office and said someone broke into his car between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. Dec. 29 and stole his checkbook. He told a deputy that he'd noticed that someone had entered his car then, but didn't report it at the time because he didn't realize anything was actually stolen — until someone used his checks in February to make a $310 DirecTV payment and a $300 Florida Power & Light payment. The man told the deputy "that he left the doors of the vehicle unlocked so if anyone tried to burglarize the vehicle they could just open the door instead of breaking a window," according to the deputy's report.

Feb. 24

Visitors' car stolen at local condo complex

12:45 p.m. First block of Surf View Drive. Possible Stolen Vehicle: A married couple from Maine were staying at a local condominium complex when their SUV was stolen. A Sheriff's Office deputy met the 63-year old woman and her 66-year-old husband at the condo property managers office. The couple said they'd parked the SUV, a maroon 2011 Acura MDX, near the condo parking garage's elevator, and that they still had both key fobs for it.