Our street got hit twice Tuesday night/Wednesday morning with car prowls. At 2:20 a male that appears intoxicated came by looking for easy targets: jiggling a few handles, looking in the backs of pickups and jeeps. Looked into my jeep and appears to try to get into the center console and then the back seat. Then at 6:00 two people in a white truck opened a van on the street, cleaned out our car, and a neighbor’s truck. We lost a big roadside emergency kit, lithium battery jump pack, a few tools, the entire contents of our glove box, a blanket, DeWalt drill/driver battery with charger, and a couple camp chairs. Not enough to claim on insurance, but a felony amount.

It was a white male and female in an early to mid-2000s white Ford Ranger with chrome rims – the ARE style with the small holes around the perimeter. The male was wearing long shorts, an orange reflective safety vest and appears to be 5’8 – 5’10” (based on height of the car roof), overweight, and long-ish dark hair. The female passenger second thief is shorter than 5’4” and was wearing sweats and a hoodie. If you recognize the truck or the occupants, please notify SPD.

We have almost constant car prowls on our street. My camera or the neighbors’ cameras pick up someone checking handles every other night or so. We are diligent, but not enough apparently. It looks like there may have been an RF scanner, but I can’t tell for certain. It looks like the lights flashed when the truck stopped at our car. I have made 3 reports of theft in the last 4 years, most of the folks on our block (24 houses) have anywhere from 1-5 in the same period. My wife and I have made numerous calls and made reports of people checking handles. Zero follow up and the theft continues. Very frustrated with the policing of property crime in Seattle.