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Recently a trend has developed with burglaries to vehicles in North Aurora. In the past two weeks, burglaries to unlocked vehicles accounted for 86% of all vehicle burglaries.

In the remaining forced entry cases, offender(s) entered by breaking a window to take valuables in plain view. GPS units were the most commonly stolen item. Other items taken were a laptop computer, air card, stereo, camera, radar detector, and a wallet with cash inside. Most often, these items are never recovered because most owners do not have serial numbers.

The NAPD urges you to park your vehicles in your garage with the door closed. If you must park outside, remove valuables, lock your doors, and leave outside lights on. We would also recommend that you keep a file with model & serial numbers for your valuables. This is very helpful to the investigation if you are ever the victim of a burglary.

Additionally, we find an average of 15-20 open garage doors each night during the summer months. This gives an opportunistic criminal access to your expensive bicycles, lawn mower, power tools, vehicles, and even access inside your home. We urge you to remember to close your garage door and leave outside lights on at night.

Doing these things will go a long way toward protecting yourself from property crime.