A guy enters a gym dressed in workout wear, so no one notices him slip into the locker room, where he proceeds to fill his backpack with wallets. It doesn?t matter if there?s a lock ? he can pop one of those things in seconds. After finding a set of keys, he heads out to the parking lot, where he presses a button to make the owner?s car flash its lights and beep. Then he lets himself in and drives away.
Unbelievable, right?
?What?s unbelievable is that people think their property is safe there,? says Detective Sonya Richardson of the Falls Church Police Department, who?s been investigating a growing number of gym thefts. She gets bulletins at least once a week from neighboring jurisdictions about the crime, which is attractive to burglars looking for easy prey. Locker rooms are smorgasbords of unattended jewelry, electronics, credit cards and cash, but they don?t have security cameras and often are designed to allow for privacy.
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