{"id":23870,"date":"2025-11-04T01:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T01:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/23870\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T01:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T01:58:08","slug":"pittsburgh-police-issue-warning-to-drivers-after-uptick-in-reports-of-vehicle-break-ins-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/23870\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh police issue warning to drivers after uptick in reports of vehicle break-ins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/17994025ecbdd0cfe72ca52f0e35a3a0.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Pittsburgh police are investigating a string of attempted and successful vehicle break-ins over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The bureau said it received eight reports in the Brookline area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hyundai and Kia vehicles were the targets. Police said this is because of a previous security fault in some models.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cMany owners have updated their vehicles with anti-theft software, but thieves will still try their luck if vehicles are left unlocked,\u201d Pittsburgh Police said.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers encourage Kia and Hyundai owners to use a steering wheel lock, especially if the model has not been updated with anti-immobilization software.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Drivers are reminded to always keep their vehicles locked and parked in well-lit areas that are visible from the house or a security camera when possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone who sees suspicious activity is asked to call 911.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:FREE WPXI News app;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Watch WPXI NOW;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh police are investigating a string of attempted and successful vehicle break-ins over the weekend. The bureau said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,745,15830],"class_list":["post-23870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-police","tag-vehicle-break-ins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}