COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Witnesses said around 40 vehicles were damaged in a string of break-ins at a Polaris hotel overnight Friday and Saturday.
A large group of guests was staying at the Hilton Columbus Polaris last weekend for the Goodguys Summit Racing Car Show at the Ohio Expo Center.
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Many of the guests were driving pickup trucks and hauling trailers full of equipment and/or cars. Frank Cejmer drove down from the Detroit area for the show. He was greeted with a rude awakening when he got to his truck Saturday morning.
“As soon as I walked up to my truck, I’m like, ‘Why is that truck bright inside?’ and I looked in the window and I’m like, ‘Oh no, I locked it,’” he said. “And then, like, a bomb went off inside that truck. I’m like, ‘Oh, Lord, they got everybody’s truck,’ and I stopped counting at seven. As long as those dome lights don’t turn on, alarms don’t go off. So, they crawled in the window. He crawled back out the window.”…