Thieves Hit Multiple Cars in Verona

Police are urging residents to keep their cars locked as they investigate a string of car burglaries that hit Verona in the last week. 

On May 11, seven cars were burglarized on various streets throughout Verona, police said. 

“We definitely believe that the same people or person was responsible for the thefts in the area that night,” said Verona Chief of Police Douglas Huber. “Every once and a while towns get hit and every once and a while we get lucky and make an arrest.”

Police are looking to the public for any information on any suspicious activity in the area of the burglaries.

On May 11, police received a call of a burglary to a motor vehicle on Park Avenue at 9:09 a.m. The resident told police that the vehicle had been entered during the night but nothing appeared to be missing.

Thirty minutes later, at 9:39 a.m., police received another call of a car burglary on Randolph Place. During the night someone stole approximated $50 in change, police said.

At 11:25 a.m. a Manor Road resident told police that her GPS, valued at $150, was stolen out of her car sometime during the night.

At 1:22 p.m., a Park Avenue Road resident reported that three cars parked in the driveway were entered during the night. A cell phone was reported missing.

Police were called by a different Manor Road resident at 1:47 p.m., who reported a GPS missing from their car.

On May 12, a Manor Road resident told police that an iPod and a pair of sunglasses missing from her car. Police believe they were stolen from the car the previous night, said Huber.

On May 14, a resident of Brentwood Drive reported an unknown amount of change was taken from a car parked in the driveway sometime overnight.

On May 16, police were called on a report of a stolen vehicle. The Summit Road resident told police that the vehicle was taken sometime after midnight.

The vehicle was entered in the state computer system as stolen and the vehicles tracking device was activated, police said.

“People need to lock their doors,” said Huber. “Most of the vehicles doors were unlocked when they were burglarized.”

Anyone with information is urged to call the Verona Police Department at (973) 239-5000.