LA Fitness In New Lenox Site Of 2 Recent Car Burglaries

NEW LENOX, IL - The village of New Lenox does not have a lot of violent crime, but this growing Will County community of 24,000 near Joliet is hardly immune from criminal activity. Last week, at least two cars in the large parking lot of the LA Fitness business were burglarized by a methodical thief. The New Lenox Police Department says both of these crimes remain active and under investigation. So far, nobody has been arrested.

Here are the pertinent facts:

A New Lenox squad car responded to the LA Fitness at 6:08 p.m. last Monday, November 6. The business is in the 2400 block of East Lincoln Highway. The car burglary victim told the officer that someone smashed a window and stole her purse.

Unfortunately, this was not the car burglary's only hit that night targeting the customers of LA Fitness.

Officers for New Lenox fielded a second burglary call that same night. The second victim notified police about 20 minutes later, at 6:28 p.m. It was an identical crime. The burglar had targeted another car in the parking lot and smashed out one of the windows to steal a purse.

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