More car thefts

By Jo Kennett

TWO CARS were stolen from Kingscliff between Wednesday and Thursday last week (March 7 and 8), with witnesses seeing people trying to break into other cars.

Detective Chief Inspector Dave Silversides said a white Nissan Navara utility was stolen from outside a home on Kingscliff Street between 6.30pm on Wednesday, March 7, and 5.55am on Thursday, March 8.

A silver Toyota Corolla was stolen from Ocean Street, near the beach at the northern end of Kingscliff, at around 12.30am the same night.

Ch Insp Silversides said NSW Police had contacted Queensland Police to inform them of the thefts.

He said the stolen vehicles will now come up on licence plate recognition.

“If it goes through a safety cam or past a highway patrol an alert comes up,” he said.

The owner of the Toyota said on social media that she believed two teenagers, a male driver and female passenger, took her vehicle.

She also said they had “a few cars following them as they sped off.’

Another resident warned locals to lock up, saying they had seen someone on their security camera trying to get into their car not long afterwards, at around 2am that morning.

The resident’s car was parked in the driveway and the person who tried to break into the car (pictured) was a young man with very short hair wearing black shorts and shoes and a light coloured jumper.

That was also at the northern end of Kingscliff.

The owner told The Weekly she was sure it was the same people who took the Toyota after seeing the footage and getting the description of the young man and woman involved in that alleged theft.

She showed the CCTV footage to the owner of the stolen Toyota who said the vehicle seen on the street that was involved in that attempted car break-in was the same car that left with her stolen car.

“The theft is disgusting at the moment,” the woman, who preferred not to be named, said.

“During January it happened weekly.

“They even broke into people’s homes while they were asleep (in Kingscliff).”

Homes have also been broken into to access car keys in Casuarina recently.

One of the cars seen on the CCTV footage was a white dual cab utility, possibly the stolen Nissan, and the other was a greyish coloured sedan.

A Casuarina resident reported having a car full of men pull up outside their house in Cottonwood Lane at 4am on Thursday morning, (March 8) and try to break into their car.

“The car we saw speeding off was a dark coloured small SUV with four guys in it,” the woman, who didn’t want to be named, said.

“Two guys were trying to get in the car and when my husband yelled at them they ran to the (other car) and sped off.

The woman said her car was also parked in the driveway.