Jacksonville police are urging people to keep their cars locked after eight guns were stolen out of unlocked cars on the city’s Southside over the July Fourth weekend.
Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Melissa Bujeda says the eight guns were stolen from six unlocked, parked vehicles in a single patrol zone.
Bujeda said, “Sometimes people feel comfortable where they live. They think, ‘It won’t happen to me.’ They get distracted in the evening when they’re going in. They have kids. They’re making dinner. They think they’ll go back and get it later.”
“They think they’ll go back and lock their doors. And sometimes they think they locked their doors. And we’re just asking everybody, double check,” she said.
The eight guns were stolen in Zone 3. That’s the area east of the St. Johns River and southeast of downtown, all the way to the southern and eastern Duval County lines.
Bujeda says police have seen an uptick in gun thefts from cars since April. The vast majority of them are from unlocked cars.
