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Someone somewhere in southeastern Connecticut seems to post nearly every morning, lately, that a car was stolen from their driveway overnight, or that neighborhood security cameras captured groups of people trying to break into cars.
The modus operandi of the night-time car thieves has become well known to area police, who have beefed up their midnight patrols and repeatedly implored residents to not leave keys or fobs in the car and to lock their cars and remove any valuables. They are coming in groups, East Lyme police Chief Michael Finkelstein said. When you look at video that neighbors and victims provide, you see multiple cars that pull up. In many cases, the cars are stolen from other places.