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Cleveland Neighborhood Deals With Car Break-In Issue

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Vehicles have been broken into at a very high rate since this summer.
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Ohio City, a popular neighborhood in Cleveland to enjoy a night out on the town, has been experiencing a large uptick in car break ins and thefts. The issue has also been prominent around the West Side Market in particular since June, which is when the non-profit removed parking gates. Reports of car break-ins and thefts have been very common in the past several weeks in the area, with one incident occurring just last Friday in which a wedding reception was ruined when guests arrived to their cars at the end of the night to see that their cars had been broken into, resulting in thousands of dollars’ worth of damages and lost goods for the guests.

The groom from this wedding has released a public statement on the incident.

Jonathan Sprouse, the groom of the wedding, said “These petty crimes could lead to violent crimes. It’s a domino effect and I don’t want to see that happen.” He was incredibly saddened that thieves put such a dim light on his special day, ruining the evening for his many guests.

Since the wedding incident, the West Side Market has begun a parking enforcement protocol in which visitors have to pay for parking with their phones. This is called a lightning pay mode. Because of the increase in the break-ins, the non-profit has been forced to give a statement on the matter, including why they removed the parking gates. They stated that they did this in order to improve traffic which can get very heavy on busy days. They expressed that particularly during the holidays the traffic gets bad and that once we hit June, there are many summer holidays followed shortly thereafter by the fall and winter holidays.

Another victim of the break-ins, 18 year old Emma Miller, spoke about her experience as well.

When Miller’s car was broken into, she was simply parked outside of a coffee shop. When walking back to her car after being there for a couple of hours, she discovered her car was missing. She is one of seven who reported having their vehicle stolen in this area. The thefts particularly happened within June, right after the parking gates were lifted. The Executive Director of Cleveland Public Market Corporation, Rosemary Modry, stands her ground that she does not see any correlation between the thefts and the gate removal.

Modry stated in a public statement that “if you are willing to steal a car, you are also willing to break the gate.” She expressed that the parking gates were only a form of revenue and not meant to serve as a safety barrier. Additionally, West Side Market says they increase security when such events happen nearby.

In the end, Emma Miller was luckily able to find her car with the help of her parents, but not from local authorities, because she had an Apple Air tag in the backseat. By the time she found her car, she said it was clearly torn apart and had a bad odor. Miller has not gone back to West Side Market since.

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