4 Attempted Car Thefts In Summit Thursday: Police

SUMMIT, NJ — Between 4 p.m. and midnight on Thursday, there were four car theft attempts in Summit, according to police.

Summit Police said all four cars were parked in driveways. The thieves tried to enter the cars, but they were all locked with no key fobs nearby.

The thieves all ran away when they were unable to open the locked cars.

The first attempt happened around 4:15 p.m. when the suspects driving a black Honda sedan with tinted windows tried to enter a 2021 Jeep Grand Cherokee and a 2018 BMW X5 on Colony Drive. Both attempts failed because the cars were locked.

Then, at around 11:55 p.m., a resident on Wallace Road saw a light-colored sedan without headlights park across the street from their property. A man wearing a light blue hooded sweatshirt got out of the sedan and failed to enter the two locked cars in the driveway.

He then returned to the sedan and drove toward Route 124.

Summit Police thanked everyone who is making an effort to lock their cars when parked.

More updates from the Summit Police Department can be found on their Facebook page.

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