One Edina resident says multiple of her and her neighbors cars had windows smashed earlier this week.
EDINA, Minn. — Car break-ins have been a seemingly constant part of this summer, with dozens of windows smashed in Minneapolis and Bloomington in recent months. Now, Edina residents have seen the same.
“I think that’s the word I would use, it’s just disheartening,” Kari Halker-Saathoff, who saw her families car windows broken, said. “Not only both of our cars got broken into, but our next-door neighbor and the neighbor next to them, two doors down, got broken into.”
That includes her husband’s new car they got just weeks ago.
Security camera video from a neighbor shows a group of people walking through yards with flashlights, checking door handles of cars parked in driveways of Halker-Saathoff’s Edina neighborhood.
“Oh, I wanted to cry,” she said, describing waking up to her family’s car windows broken.
Edina police say six people have been arrested in the last few weeks in connection to car thefts in the Morningside and Chowen Park neighborhoods.
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Halker-Saathoff says more difficult than the cleanup was talking through what happened with her son.
“I have a son with autism, and, that, we really struggled for a good day processing this,” she said.
“Anything like this is hard for anybody to fathom and to understand,” she continued. “Are they going to break into my house? And I think that’s, that’s the next level of like, where we should be concerned.”
Halker-Saathoff says thieves went through her car but there was nothing to take – she says she takes valuables out and makes sure it’s locked.
A reminder she says all should consider doing.
“Be mindful of your surroundings, grab your belongings, and this is not the end of the world,” she said. “It’s just a stumbling block.”