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Monday, March 23, 2009

Rash of car break-ins, thefts spoils first Spring weekend




Plainfield Mayor Sharon Robinson-Briggs may tout a reduction in violent crime, but there is a different kind of crime wave you never hear her speak about: car break-ins and thefts.

This past weekend provides an example, as reported by a reader, in whose neighborhood a van stolen from Fanwood was found on Sunday.

Seems whoever abandoned that van had traded up by stealing the Camry of another resident of the Hillside Avenue neighborhood near Muhlenberg.

Neighbors learned from police investigating the stolen van that there had been a rash of car break-ins over the weekend citywide, and that the van contained items stolen from a car on Carnegie Avenue.

Storal of the mory: Lock your car. Always. If you have an alarm system, use it. If you have a garage, make room for your car in it.

Oh, and when listening to Mayor Robinson-Briggs listing her accomplisments, remember that WHAT IS NOT SAID may be more important than what IS said.


-- Dan Damon

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