Rowley Street near Park Avenue latest area to get hit with car break-ins
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Rowley Street in the Park Avenue neighborhood is the latest area to get hit by a string of car break-ins.
News10NBC’s photojournalist saw multiple cars with smashed windows. Neighbors say it happened on Monday night into Tuesday morning. This comes after at least five cars had windows smashed on Monday night at an apartment complex on Manor Parkway off South Avenue.
Earlier this month, around 40 car windows were smashed on Oxford Street off East Avenue and several other city neighborhoods. Days after that, several more windows were smashed near Cobbs Hill Park. In December around Christmas, vandals also smashed car windows in Penfield, a church parking lot in Henrietta, and the Park Avenue area.
Rochester Police say they’ve assigned a detective to investigate the break-ins and they’re assigning overtime for officers in the southeast side of the city.
“We’ve noticed that this is predominantly occurring in the southeast part of the city, which is our Goodman section,” RPD Lt. Greg Bello said. “And so our Goodman section has been utilizing overtime patrols, putting extra officers out in those affected neighborhoods, trying to catch them in progress with it.”
RPD is also asking people to send in security camera video if it catches the vandals in the act. You can call 311 or Crime Stoppers at 585-423-9300 or email RPDTipLine@CityofRochester.gov.
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