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Article: GPS units on thieves' wish list; Numerous cars have been broken into
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- January 13, 2008
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Portable GPS units flew off store shelves and into people's cars
this Christmas season, and now they are flying into the hands of
thieves who see easy pickings stuck to the windshield.
"The hot item for Christmas has now become the must-have for
Grinch-like thieves, who are not afraid to break your car window to
get at their target," New Berlin police Lt. Mike Glider said.
Ask Heather Stair, who parked her car under a light at a
restaurant in a nice area of New Berlin when a thief smashed her car
window and took off with her global positioning system unit.
Stair was at Stonefire Pizza with her 4-year-old son in late
afternoon Dec. 30 when the manager paged the owner of a gold Honda
CRV. She ...