Tires and Rims Thieves Strike Again in Malverne
22.05.12
It happened again.
A Malverne resident living on Foster Avenue stepped outside his home Tuesday morning to find one of his vehicles parked in the driveway but resting on cinder blocks, its tires and rims gone, stolen by thieves while he slept.
This has become a common sighting throughout Nassau County's Fifth Precinct, with several cases reported in West Hempstead, Lakeview, Franklin Square, Elmont, Valley Stream and Garden City South throughout 2011. In March , a similar incident occurred at another home in Malverne located on Norwood Avenue and in both cases the thieves' targets were Nissan Maximas.
This time, the victim checked on his cars, as he does every night, before going to bed. At approximately 1 a.m., everything was fine, but when his neighbor headed out around 5:30 a.m. to catch the train in Westwood he noticed that the Nissan Maxima was propped up on blocks in the driveway.
Still, he didn't say anything at the time, not realizing his neighbor had just been a victim of larceny. "He thought maybe I was doing something with the car," the victim, who wished not to disclose his name, told Patch. It wasn't until he woke up around 9:45 a.m. that he discovered for himself that all four tires and rims were gone from the leased vehicle he recently acquired from his late father.
Source: Patch.com