Car Windows Smashed, $1,300 In Items Stolen: Cops

OSWEGO, IL — A string of car burglaries in Oswego’s Lakeview subdivision has police urging residents to lock their cars. A combined estimated value of $1,350 worth of goods were taken from three cars between Oct. 4 and Oct. 5. All were reported the morning of Oct. 5.

Windows were broken in two of the cars on Briarwood Lane and Lakeview Drive. In one case, a Garmin GPS system was taken from a dashboard. In the other, miscellaneous tools. An unlocked toolbox mounted to the back of a pickup truck was also looted on Pinehurst Court. A police report says someone also entered the victim’s unlocked shed in his backyard and took a bicycle, which was later found in a neighbor’s yard.

Public Information Officer Cathy Nevara says authorities cannot speculate whether these break-ins were done by the same person, or even at the same time, although they did occur a few doors down from one another across from Prairie Point Park. Nevara encourages people to call in suspicious activity, even if nothing was taken.

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