While car burglars have been striking all over the city for weeks, residents of Murray Hills say their small community has become a lightning rod for theft and vandalism in recent days.
Multiple people have taken to Facebook to commiserate and share their own stories about finding their cars broken into over the last month, giving details about what was taken or what time the break-in occurred.
“My car was broken into Around 4:30am. Multiple people were seen fleeing from the car when we walked outside,” Damon Thomas wrote on a neighborhood Facebook page. “They went through my glove compartment and everything else, but they didn’t take anything. Just a heads up. This happened on Tarpon Trail.”
Even when the doors were locked, burglars simply smashed through car windows.
“They used a rock to break the window and left the car door open after they were through. Nothing in there to take but my mother in law did call the police to file a report. Her neighbor said they thought they heard a car alarm around 3:45am,” wrote Gretchen Foster.