Auto dealers and repair shops are increasingly becoming a target for burglars around the Puget Sound region.
Be careful next time you take your car in for an oil change and drop it off the night before. Auto dealers and repair shops are increasingly becoming a target of burglars around the Puget Sound region.From Bellevue to Olympia, burglars are reportedly breaking into dealerships and mechanics’ shops, often by ramming their cars into service entrances.
Often, the object of the burglary appears to be the keys to the cars on site — either the dealership’s own cars or the keys that people drop off when having their cars worked on. The criminals either steal the cars at the time of the burglary, or return later for them. This happened early Friday morning at Nissan of Olympia, when burglars rammed a car into the service entrance to get in. John Brown, the dealership’s general manager, said that the burglars took the keys to two cars that were waiting for service.
“They did take a customer’s car, so what they’re really doing is looking at the service drive to see if there’s any night drop, because customers will drop cars off at night,” Brown said. “They got [two cars], but we’ve recovered one of the cars already — we’ve got one car that we’re still looking for.”, made up of police from different agencies, is putting a special emphasis toward catching the burglars.
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