Wicked Local
Muji Karim circled the parking lot of his South Burlington hotel three times on Jan. 9 before he finally believed his eyes.
The two cars he had parked between were still there from the night before. His black Mercedes SUV? Gone. He would not be driving home to Medford that day.
"It was 2020 in overtime, I guess," Karim said.
When police located his vehicle in Burlington, Vermont the next day behind a building on Pine Street, the situation seemed too brazen to be coincidental. It had to be some cruel prank.
For the second time in less than a year, someone had stolen one of Karim's prosthetic legs — actually, three of them this time, along with glasses, sunglasses, his son's car seat and other personal effects. In their place, police found tens of thousands of dollars worth of stolen goods, cigarette butts and drug paraphernalia, according to Karim.