Thieves smashed windows from about a dozen cars Saturday night in Orion Township, making off with GPS units, iPods, laptops, a set of expensive golf clubs and other items left in vehicles overnight.
‘If you leave your belongings in the car you’re just inviting someone to steal them,? said Sgt. Michael Suarez of the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office Orion Township substation. ‘Even leaving a GPS mount on the window, you’re advertising your stuff to criminals.?
Saturday’s rash of larcenies took place on the township’s west side, north of Waldon between Joslyn and Baldwin in the Keatington area.
Most of the thefts occurred on Wareing and Walmsley Circle.
Suarez advised residents to take anything of value into the house overnight.
‘It used to be they’d just hit the cars left unlocked,? he said, noting people often tell deputies they ‘heard something? in the night, or heard a car alarm go off, but didn’t get up to check. ‘Now they go in, hit the windows’boom, boom, boom, boom’and they’re out of there.?
These days, Suarez noted, cars have become a ‘mobile office? to many,
‘Everyone knows people leave stuff in their cars,? he said. ‘Then we see things like stolen laptops and people losing days or months worth of work.?
Anyone with information on the weekend larcenies is asked to call the Orion substation at 248-393-0093.