Car Thief Caught On Surveillance Camera
Posted: Jul 12, two thousand seventeen Ten:11 PM CDT
Updated: Jul 12, two thousand seventeen Ten:44 PM CDT
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Kim Bussard and family got home Monday evening to an empty driveway.
“It was about nine o’clock. It was about four hours since it happened. We looked on the movie camera, we left at five p.m. and literally at Five:29 it was when they pulled up,” said Bussard.
She says the suspect got out of he driver’s side of a black Chevy HHR. He walked right up to her vehicle that was parked in her driveway and in a matter of seconds he was gone.
“And it happened that rapid,” Bussard said.
She says her car was unlocked, but the keys were not in it. From the surveillance movie, it emerges the man didn’t fight to turn the car on and back out. It’s still unclear how he managed to turn it on so quickly.
Bussard says her cameras are movability activated and didn’t commence recording until the man was about to get into her car.
A neighbor’s security camera caught the HHR and Bussard’s vehicles leaving the neighborhood.
“And the HHR just followed right behind him,” she said.
Bussard says a neighbor across the street, eyed the man get out of the black vehicle and take her Cobalt, but thought he was a family member picking up the car.
“They said he didn’t seem jumpy,” she said. “Like it was a chunk of cake for him.”
For Bussard however, that man took more than just a car. The two thousand five Chevy Cobalt was a bounty from her mother who passed away with brain cancer.
“She gave it to me because she wasn’t able to drive it anymore,” Bussard said. “I had a decal put on. It said ‘in loving memory of my mom’ and had a brain cancer awareness ribbon on the back.”
Bussard is not alone. So far this year six hundred seventy two vehicle thefts have been reported in Springfield. Eighty one just in July. Police says four out of ten cars stolen are left running, had the keys in it or were left unlocked.
Springfield Police say footage from security cameras can help solve these cases quicker.
A home surveillance system at Best Buy can cost anywhere from $200 to about $900.
“Typically for a wired system, you can go from $300 to $500 depending on how many cameras you are wanting in the home,” said Taj Farouki, a Clever Home Designer at Best Buy. “Depends on the type of resolution that you get. The higher the resolution, the clearer the picture that you get, and it will also determine the price.”
Their most expensive product is the Arlo system.
“We have seen an increase, especially in the summer, when kids are out and things like that,” he said.
Springfield Police says it recovers eight out of ten cars that are stolen in the city.
Bussard says she’s hopeful her movies will help bring her car, and all the memories it carries, back to her driveway.
“I don’t what condition it will be in,’ she said. “It might take time, but I am just hoping and asking that it’s something I can drive.”
Bussard’s car is a four-door two thousand five Silver Chevy Cobalt. The man in the movie is a white masculine, bald, with a neck tattoo and is wearing glasses.
If you have any information on the vehicle or the suspect, contact police.
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Car Thief Caught On Surveillance Camera
Posted: Jul 12, two thousand seventeen Ten:11 PM CDT
Updated: Jul 12, two thousand seventeen Ten:44 PM CDT
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Kim Bussard and family got home Monday evening to an empty driveway.
“It was about nine o’clock. It was about four hours since it happened. We looked on the movie camera, we left at five p.m. and literally at Five:29 it was when they pulled up,” said Bussard.
She says the suspect got out of he driver’s side of a black Chevy HHR. He walked right up to her vehicle that was parked in her driveway and in a matter of seconds he was gone.
“And it happened that rapid,” Bussard said.
She says her car was unlocked, but the keys were not in it. From the surveillance movie, it emerges the man didn’t fight to turn the car on and back out. It’s still unclear how he managed to turn it on so quickly.
Bussard says her cameras are mobility activated and didn’t begin recording until the man was about to get into her car.
A neighbor’s security camera caught the HHR and Bussard’s vehicles leaving the neighborhood.
“And the HHR just followed right behind him,” she said.
Bussard says a neighbor across the street, eyed the man get out of the black vehicle and take her Cobalt, but thought he was a family member picking up the car.
“They said he didn’t seem jumpy,” she said. “Like it was a lump of cake for him.”
For Bussard however, that man took more than just a car. The two thousand five Chevy Cobalt was a bounty from her mother who passed away with brain cancer.
“She gave it to me because she wasn’t able to drive it anymore,” Bussard said. “I had a decal put on. It said ‘in loving memory of my mom’ and had a brain cancer awareness ribbon on the back.”
Bussard is not alone. So far this year six hundred seventy two vehicle thefts have been reported in Springfield. Eighty one just in July. Police says four out of ten cars stolen are left running, had the keys in it or were left unlocked.
Springfield Police say footage from security cameras can help solve these cases quicker.
A home surveillance system at Best Buy can cost anywhere from $200 to about $900.
“Typically for a wired system, you can go from $300 to $500 depending on how many cameras you are wanting in the home,” said Taj Farouki, a Brainy Home Designer at Best Buy. “Depends on the type of resolution that you get. The higher the resolution, the clearer the picture that you get, and it will also determine the price.”
Their most expensive product is the Arlo system.
“We have seen an increase, especially in the summer, when kids are out and things like that,” he said.
Springfield Police says it recovers eight out of ten cars that are stolen in the city.
Bussard says she’s hopeful her movies will help bring her car, and all the memories it carries, back to her driveway.
“I don’t what condition it will be in,’ she said. “It might take time, but I am just hoping and begging that it’s something I can drive.”
Bussard’s car is a four-door two thousand five Silver Chevy Cobalt. The man in the movie is a white masculine, bald, with a neck tattoo and is wearing glasses.
If you have any information on the vehicle or the suspect, contact police.
Copyright two thousand seventeen Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.