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Bluffs Police investigate numerous thefts from vehicles

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June 4th, 2015 by Ric Hanson

Police in Council Bluffs investigated a series of car break-ins reported at Oakland Court Apartments early Wednesday. The Daily NonPareil says according to police, a Council Bluffs woman reported seeing a burglary to a vehicle in the 200 block of North Second Street shortly after 1 a.m. The woman told police she saw a man walking near a green 2001 Chevy Blazer after hearing the vehicle’s car alarm sound. The suspect saw the woman and ran to a gray, sporty-looking car and drove away at a high rate of speed.

Further investigation by police found the front passenger window of the Blazer had been a broken out, though it appeared no items had been stolen from the vehicle. Officers found about six vehicles with unlocked doors in the area, including two that suspects might have gone through: a 2000 Pontiac Grand Am and 2006 Chevy Cobalt.

The reporting officer locked the doors on the vehicles. Meanwhile, police received a report later in the morning about several vehicles broken into at an apartment complex in the 3500 block of 12th Avenue also during the night.