Police respond to multiple car break-ins on Bear Blvd. near Missouri State University

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) – Police are investigating a sequence of automobile break-ins at a car parking zone on the Missouri State campus.

Thieves hit greater than 16 automobiles at 921 E. Bear Boulevard on Could 19. SPD says not the entire vehicles have been broken or had issues stolen. A few of these vehicles have been left unlocked and had gadgets stolen. Different automobiles had nothing stolen however have been broken as a result of break-ins.

The identical day, 9 automobiles have been damaged into at 533 E. Bear Boulevard at an house complicated.

Zachary McCubbins lives at that house complicated and had his automobile damaged into twice.

Each instances his driver’s facet window was smashed.

After the primary time, he paid greater than $260 to get it repaired, and he’ll have to try this another time after his automobile was damaged into once more on Could 24.

“As a university scholar, it’s form of arduous to make ends meet,” McCubbins says. “For right here, I reside with my fiancée, so we share lease, and that’s about half of our lease cash proper there.”

McCubbins says two instances in lower than one week, somebody broke into his automobile parked outdoors his house.

He doesn’t know what he’ll do if it occurs once more.

“I don’t know. It simply felt like dread,” McCubbins says. “Simply listening to that and realizing I must come again and do one thing with my automobile.”

Nothing vital was stolen both time. McCubbins says he all the time takes valuables out of his automobile and locks it.

Nevertheless, he nonetheless fell sufferer to the crime and says he nearly needs he had left the automobile unlocked.

McCubbins says that may’ve saved him from paying to restore his smashed window not as soon as however twice.

“Stuff like this impacts the lives of many individuals,” McCubbins says. “Many individuals who can’t even actually afford it. Faculty college students of all issues. They’re frightened about tuition, how they’re going to get their groceries. Worrying a couple of automobile 5 days in a row simply isn’t one thing that individuals ought to must be financially frightened about.”

Cris Swaters with the Springfield Police Division says that theft from a automobile can occur in a big car parking zone of vehicles.

The division urges everybody to take something of worth out of their automobile.

Nevertheless, conserving your automobile clear can even make a distinction.

“In case your automobile is soiled, if it’s messy, if it’s cluttered, even when there’s nothing of worth within the automobile, somebody doesn’t know that till they’ve broken your automobile and have rifled via your issues,” Swaters says.

McCubbins plans to reside on the house complicated once more for summer season courses and into the upcoming faculty yr.

With that comes considerations over parking, particularly after a number of vehicles skilled break-ins that day.

“I do know there are a number of individuals right here who witnessed it, and so they mentioned that they have been fairly lined, so I can’t think about it’s an remoted incident,” McCubbins says. “I simply hope that they’re caught, and it stops occurring.”

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