CENTER TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Center Township, Beaver County police are investigating a number of thefts from vehicles.
All of them occurring within a couple of miles from one another late this week.
“It was planned. It was thought. And it was committed,” Blake Miller told Channel 11. He had three cars entered along Chapel Road.
All were unlocked.
“There’s no houses around. We’ve been here for two years [and] not a single problem,” he said.
Miller says his wife called him Thursday morning after discovering her nursing bag was missing from one car. in it, was her license and credit cards.
About a mile away, surveillance footage captured a man checking for unlocked cars at the Beaver Creek Village apartment complex.
He found Jessica Hogue’s SUV.
“I’ve never felt the need to lock anything,” she said. “[I] left my purse and work bag in the car thinking I was just going to be there a few minutes [but I] fell asleep.”
She lost her wallet, debit card, cash, gift cards, spare car keys and her kids’ social security cards.
“I’ve got to get new social security cards, go to credit bureaus and put a lock on their accounts,” she said.
Center Township Police tell Channel 11 a Ford F-150 pickup truck was the most valuable thing stolen. At this point, they say it’s too early to tell if the thefts are all linked.
Miller doesn’t need convincing.
“It’s not just a one, two-time thing. This is a crime spree,” she said.
Hogue has this advice: “Lock everything.”
Anyone with information should call Center Township police at 724-774-3329.
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