Residents of an affordable senior living community in southwest Las Vegas say they are living in fear after a rash of car break-ins in their own parking lot.
At the Arioso Senior Apartments off of Blue Diamond and Fort Apache roads, residents tell Channel 13 two cars were stolen and 16 have been burglarized in the past three months.
“My personal car got broken into, and then I got a rental car, then two days later they broke into the rental car,” said Arioso Senior Apartments resident Rory T. Edwards.
Residents have security camera footage they say shows a person checking several cars with a flashlight, a person breaking into and diving in a car, three people checking cars and hiding under a truck, a person jumping over a brick wall into the complex — and many more examples of trespassing and criminal activity.
“They consistently come back because of opportunity, so if we alleviate the opportunity, then we can feel safer anyhow,” said Vickie Caldwell, who has lived in the complex since it opened in 2022.