Neighbors in the Waldo neighborhood are fed up with an uptick in crime. Several residents have reported car break-ins and stolen air conditioning units.
Jessica Williams has surveillance video of a man rifling through her SUV late Sunday night.
She lives near 83rd and Main.
“He walked straight up to my car, opened it up, looked through everything and walked away,” Williams explained. “This is the second, sort of, incident we’ve had.”
Further south at 90th and Wornall, another theft on the very same day.
Alysse Weigand noticed her home was feeling extra warm.
“So I walked outside to see if there was something wrong with my air conditioner and it wasn't there. It was gone,” she said.
Weigand said she lives on a busy road with street lights for a reason. She’s trying to figure out how someone got away with her air conditioner unit.
"When you look at the cut and stuff, it's a clean cut. So they must have had wire cutters,” she explained.
Residents aren’t the only ones getting hit.
A business near 72nd and Wornall lost thousands in merchandise last month after a robber broke in.
In early June, a tire shop at 81st and Wornall reported a man who broke into several of its customers’ cars parked outside.
Williams has noticed the uptick in crime.
"I'm seeing a lot of the crime that's being reported to neighbors saying, ‘Hey, look out, this is where I live, my place just got broken into or my car got broken into, or my A/C got stolen.’"
As for Weigand, she now has an estimated $6,000 to $7,000 expense on her hands.
"I’m upset, it's not an easy expense to take care of and it's going to be July soon. It's the middle of the summer, it's really hot,” she said. “I have three pets. I can handle sitting in my house when it’s a 100 degrees, but I don't want my animals to die of heatstroke."
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Lexi Sutter can be reached at lexi.sutter@kshb.com.
