CHESAPEAKE, Va. — Police are investigating a rash of break-ins at daycares across the city.
Investigators told 13News Now, they happened Monday morning. Two thieves, a man, and woman are driving a black mini-van and stealing from locked and unlocked cars in daycare parking lots. The incidents happened in the areas below:
- 6:55 AM- 1400 Eden Way N
- 7:28 AM - 300 Cedar Lane
- 7:50 AM -900 Battlefield Boulevard S
- 8:34 AM - 300 Kempsville Road
The Goddard School provided 13News Now with video of one of the break-ins. It shows a woman getting out of a black minivan, then she gets back in. Several seconds later, a man appears to open the back door of the van and use a sharp object to shatter the window in the car next to them. The man grabs something out of the car and before he shuts the back door.
“It’s what’s most disheartening is that there are no concrete answers until they are found,” explained Danyale Davis explained.
The video provided by the Goddard School didn’t show Danyale Davis’s car, but she said the same thing happened to her at another daycare in Chesapeake.
“They stole my purse. My kids actually got it for me for Christmas. My wallet, all my identification and all the gift cards I had in there and some cash and gift cards,” she said.
The thieves may not only be in Chesapeake. A woman who didn’t want to be identified for safety reasons said the same thing happened to her on Friday in Suffolk. She said she was pulling into her son’s daycare when she saw the woman in the black minivan.
“I waved at her. She was originally planning trying to park next to me,” the woman said.
In a rush, she said she left her doors unlocked as she dropped her son off and when she came back to her car, thousands of dollars worth of items were stolen out of her car. Credit and debit cards, two purses and hundreds of dollars in event tickets.
“I feel violated, you think about how hard you work to earn those things and afford those things just to have someone take that from you,” she said.
Police are still trying to find the two people. If you think you know them, call the crime line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.