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Article: GPS navigational device hot item for thieves
- Article from:
- Maryland Gazette
- Article date:
- October 10, 2007
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BOSTON (AP) - When Austin Sweazy pulled into the parking lot of
an auto-repair shop, his fiancee reminded him that even though their
errand inside would last just a few minutes, it would be smart to
lock the car doors.
After all, she said, "you don't want anybody to steal your GPS."
Mr. Sweazy heeded her advice. But it didn't matter. In the few
minutes the couple were inside the store, a thief smashed the window
of Mr. Sweazy's car, snatched his $600 TomTom portable navigation
unit off the windshield and fled into the gathering dusk.
Valuable stuff has been swiped from cars forever, but the theft
of portable satellite-navigation units is dramatically increasing in
many places. Crime analysts ...