COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
Columbia Police still have no new information on a string of vehicle break-ins captured on video in northern Columbia earlier this month.
CPD spokesman Brain McNeill told ABC 17 they don’t have any updates on an incident report that on Aug. 13 after ring camera video showed at least three people wearing black hoodies break into a car, with one of them keeping watch on the street while the other pointed a gun at a house while the third person smashed the window of a truck. It was one of three break-in attempts captured on video that ABC 17 obtained.
The man who submitted one of the videos — who only wished to be identified as Jared out of safety concerns – told ABC 17 on Monday that he still hasn’t heard from police since filing a report on Aug.13. At the time he said that police told him they had made “at least ten stops.”
According to a 2023 study from the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) , Missouri had the seventh-highest vehicle theft rate in the country in 2022. In 2023, the Show-Me State also ranked 10th in the country in vehicle theft rates by volume with 27,279 reported incidents.