Avon neighbors find cars smashed, items stolen

AVON, Ind (WISH) – An Avon neighborhood was littered in glass after a string of car break-ins.

Dave Howard was forced to vacuum his car Thursday. The Avon neighbor had three of his vehicles broken into overnight.

“It’s disappointment, you know,” Howard said. “Sure, it’s like somebody took something when I would have more to give to them.”

A mess inside his truck is what he found as he left for work.

“My first thing was, I don’t remember doing this,” Howard said. “All my belongings in my console in my glove box were rifled through and dumped on the floor and dumped on the seat.”

As he looked closer, he spotted broken glass. Two other cars at his house were hit too.

Howard said a knife, and work badge were stolen. He also noticed his neighbor’s car windows were smashed too.

“You would think breaking glass, that many times, within such a close proximity of each other, somebody would’ve heard it,” Howard said.

It wasn’t a couple of homes hit. Hendricks County deputies said in all, there were nine victims between Dan Jones Road and County Road 900 East.

A troubling thought for anyone living in this neighborhood.

“That kind concerns me that I might come up on somebody and not know it,” Avon resident Linda Swope said. “Yeah, it’s a little unnerving.”

This is especially true for those who got hit. Howard said he plans to leave nothing in his cars.

He has a message to the person who left him to clean up their mess.

“I wish you would’ve knocked on my door rather than break into my car and cause me damage and take something,” Howard said. “I’d rather give it to you than you take it.”

Deputies don’t have a suspect description. Sheriff Brett Clark is encouraging neighbors to report suspicious activity.

“Our residents are our best ally,” he said. “I would like to ask them to call in and report suspicious activity. Many times we tend to explain things away in our minds or we don’t want to bother the police, but please call; that’s why we’re here.”