Lewisville police released video of two men Monday that they believe may be behind several car break-ins in the Gardenridge Brazos neighborhood.
The video from a home surveillance system on September 2 at around 2 a.m. shows two younger, Caucasian-looking males in t-shirts and shorts approach a truck in a driveway, check to see if the door was unlocked and then move onto a vehicle across the ally to try the same thing.
Lt. Scott Haynes also notes one of the men had a cast on his right arm and the other seemed to be visibly limping.
He says the next day, several items were reported stolen from cars in the area. Haynes asks anyone with information on the men to contact the Lewisville Police Department right away.
Highland Village and Flower Mound are also working with LPD to identify the men and try to solve several additional thefts from cars in the three-city area during the month of August. Haynes says in the vast majority of the cases the vehicle doors were unlocked.
Just up Interstate 35E, police in Corinth, Lake Dallas and Hickory Creek are also working together to try to get to the bottom of about a dozen similar vehicle break-ins that happened throughout the three communities.
Asst. Chief Greg Wilkerson with the Corinth Police reports that the thieves in these cases tend to take whatever they can get their hands on, from spare change to small electronics or anything else they can grab.
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The Little Elm Police posted on their Facebook page Monday that they saw 34 such break-ins during August and every single case was due to unlocked doors.
“A crime of opportunity,” said Corporal Chris Carver from the Highland Village Police.
Carver’s department saw only 16 vehicle break-ins the whole year leading up to August; they then saw eight in that month alone.
He and all of the other departments say it’s a crime whether the doors are locked or not, but that often times thieves are targeting those vehicles that are easy to get into.
“We want to make sure people lock the cars, remove their belongings from the cars, and if there has to be something that stays in the cars, make sure it’s well hidden,” he said.
