Hey Cleveland and Northeast Ohio, is your brand of car making you a target for thieves?

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – A warning from police who say the sort of automotive you drive, might be making you a goal for automotive thieves.

However what’s most regarding for regulation enforcement is how social media is definitely offering a information to thieves on how straightforward it’s to steal your automotive.

Westlake Police tells 19 Information from August fifth till August eleventh they’ve had six thefts of largely Kia autos and Hyundais.

In response to Captain Jerry Vogel, the autos had been all stolen in a single day from varied house complexes in Westlake, “If they’ve a push button begin they’re okay, however, if it’s a conventional key begin there’s workaround to take it to begin it and drive it with out keys.”

Lakewood Police say they’ve additionally been hit by automotive thieves out there for Kias and/or Hyundais. On Thursday morning, after dawn on Newman and Cove Streets, there have been two tried thefts of Kia Fortes. One was a 2016 mannequin, the opposite 2017.

Captain Gary Stone says one automotive had its doorways unlocked, however the different automotive had its window damaged so the thieves might acquire entry, “In each circumstances, the automotive was not taken. There was an try to pry the ignition.”

So, native regulation enforcement officers are warning anybody who owns a Kia mannequin made as early as 2011 that you might be focused in addition to anybody who owns a Hyundai from 2015 or later.

Fueling issues for regulation enforcement, there’s mainly a “how you can” information on social media, instructing automotive thieves how you can commit the crime. Captain Stone says instructing criminals how you can commit against the law on-line is unconscionable, “I might enterprise to say that by way of this use of social media that’s why extra of those crimes are occurring as a result of persons are taking a look at this and making an attempt it.”

What’s much more troubling, the stolen automobiles are getting used for extra than simply transportation by thieves, Westlake Captain Vogel tells 19 Information, “We’ve had pleasure driving, we’ve recovered them with firearms inside, and we’ve additionally recovered them after they’ve been utilized in crimes as much as and murder.”

The theft of late mannequin Kias and/or Hyundais has develop into a nationwide drawback. In Columbus for instance greater than 1500 Kias and Hyundai’s have been stolen up to now this 12 months.

Police say the most effective recommendation to maintain you and your property protected, park your car in a storage if in any respect potential, all the time lock your doorways, by no means depart a spare key within the automotive and if you’ll find one thing to lock your steering wheel or make your automotive motionless to an outsider police say that’s even higher.

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