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October 12, 2004
Eye in sky
captures
car theft
Ramon Nunez
Mesa Legend
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College Safety officer, John Poe, monitors all of the activity taking place in MCC’s parking lots
utilizing video taken from security cameras placed on campus. A car theft suspect was seen on camera peering into vehicles in the campus parking lot adjacent to the MCC football stadium. |
Photo by David Jimenez Mesa Legend |
On Sept. 20, a silver van was stolen from the Mesa Community College campus parking lot by an unknown suspect.
The owner of the van, a woman, was running late to a class and had left her keys and bag in the vehicle prior to it being stolen.
The suspect was seen wandering through the lot and peering into vehicles by MCC security cameras.
Although not yet fully identified, the suspect is described as a heavyset Caucasian or Hispanic male.
The information has been turned over to the Mesa Police Department.
This is the first of two vehicles stolen this semester from the Mesa campus thus far; the second being a Jeep Cherokee, which was stolen, Sept. 27, just before 10:00 p.m., by the MCC football stadium.
Three males in a silver, two-door car were caught breaking a window and driving off in the Jeep on camera.
This information was also released to the Mesa Police Department. Last semester there were a total of four vehicles stolen from the MCC Campus.
MCC recently installed security cameras on campus to monitor the parking lots.
“The cameras serve two purposes,” said Steve Corich, director of College Safety. “To help us deter crime by the individuals seeing the cameras and a tool to apprehend the suspects as well.”
It has yet to be determined if the security cameras have helped to cut the number of vehicles stolen from the MCC campus thus far.
Although Mesa hasn’t been a prime target, Arizona ranks significantly high in auto thefts.
According to the FBI, Arizona still ranks first in the nation for having the highest number of auto thefts, with one car stolen every 9 minutes and 22 seconds, and a total of 56,222 vehicles stolen last year.
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