Reports of Kia, Hyundai car thefts continue to pour in to Cleveland Heights police
CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio -- Reports of car thefts and attempted car thefts, mostly involving Kia and Hyundai autos, continue to be called in to[1] Cleveland Heights police. Such reports taken in the past week include these:
-- At 5 a.m. July 25, police took a report of a stolen 2019 Kia Forte from Lee Road. The owner said his car may have been unlocked. It was parked in his driveway in front of another car. It appeared as though the thieves drove the stolen car across a neighbor’s lawn.
The car was detected by an automated license plate reader at 11 p.m. the night before at East 222nd Street and Lake Shore Boulevard in Euclid.
-- At 11:15 p.m. July 24, a woman reported that someone tried to steal her car from a Euclid Heights Boulevard address. The car’s back window had been smashed and its steering column peeled.
-- At 5:10 p.m. July 24, a Warrensville Center Road woman reported that she found her Hyundai Sonata car, which she parked the night before, with a smashed window. The woman had a steering wheel lock on her car, which prevented its theft.
-- At 4:35 p.m. July 24, at the same Warrensville Center Road address as above, another woman reported that someone smashed the rear driver’s side window of her Hyundai Elantra. She, too, had a steering wheel lock on her car.
The woman told police it was the third time someone had tried to steal, or had stolen, her car.
-- At 1:05 p.m. July 24, a woman, 31, reported that she had parked in city lot number 30, 2729 Euclid Heights Blvd., to get lunch in the area. When she returned to her Kia car just 45 minutes later, it was found with a broken driver’s side door and a peeled steering column.
-- At 8:40 p.m. July 23, police were called to a Hampshire Road lot, off Mayfield Road, where a woman reported that her car’s rear passenger window had been busted out, its steering wheel peeled and its ignition pulled out.
-- At 12:35 a.m. July 22, police were called to Medford Road where someone smashed the rear passenger window of a Kia Forte and peeled its steering column.
The owner a man, 22, told officers he parked the car at 5 p.m. July 21 in front of his friend’s house and when he returned from a baseball game at 11 p.m., he discovered the damage. Items were stolen from the car’s console, including a credit card.
-- At 5 a.m. July 22, a Rosedale Road woman reported that she parked her Kia Sportage in her driveway at about 10 p.m. July 21 and, when her husband got up for work at 4:45 a.m., he noticed the vehicle missing. Broken glass was found in the driveway.
The woman told police her 9mm handgun was kept in the car’s glove box. A police Flock camera got an image of the car at 10:55 p.m. July 21 at North Taylor and Bayreuth roads.
At 7:55 that morning, a Flock camera alerted police that the stolen Sportage was entering Cleveland Heights from East Cleveland. CHPD officers gave chase and the chase ended with a crash in East Cleveland.
The male driver was arrested in the back yard of a Holyoke Road abandoned home, in a semi-collapsed back stairwell. An officer checked that stairwell and located the stolen gun.
There was also a passenger in the stolen car. That male was last seen running in the Windermere RTA bus lot off Euclid Avenue and was not apprehended despite the CHPD receiving help from Shaker Heights, East Cleveland and RTA police officers.
-- At 11:15 p.m. July 21, a Sycamore Road man reported that he went to his rental car to drive to work and found that its steering column was damaged. Entry to the car was gained by unknown means.
-- At 11:30 a.m. July 20, a Noble Road woman went to the police station to report that her car had been stolen. The woman parked her 2019 Hyundai Elantra at about 6 p.m. July 19 in her open apartment garage. She discovered it missing at 6 a.m. the next day.
A Flock camera spotted the car at 3:30 a.m. July 20 heading south on Noble Road, at Greyton Road.
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References
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