Wave Of Unlocked Suburban Car Burglaries Continues: Police

HINSDALE, IL -- A man with a scar on his face is the most recent image to be captured on home surveillance video in what is being described as a “Chicago Pattern” of overnight car burglaries, according to information shared by Hinsdale police.

Burglaries to mostly unlocked vehicles are rampant throughout the south suburbs. Unlocked vehicle break-ins have been reported in Frankfort, Tinley Park, Orland Park, Lemont, Midlothian, Worth and Crestwood.

Images from a residential security camera show a man with what appears to be a distinct scar on his face, police said. Several residential security cameras captured three men moving through a residential neighborhood near I-55 and County Line Road in Hinsdale. The information shared by suburban police agencies did not indicate a date in which the purported car burglaries occurred.

The men were roaming the neighborhood on foot reportedly rifling through cars when the images were captured including the man with scar, police said.

“Historically (since 2016) the strategy is deploying from a running vehicle immediate to the search area. No assist vehicle was captured in this incident,” the alert said.

Hinsdale police have arrested one man in the continuing pattern, who remarked when shown the photos: “Bro has a scar on his face. Never seen him before.”

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