OF COURSE, THAT NUMBER EIGHT, 2 TO 1111 COURT. ON CAMERA SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE SHOWING A GROUP OF PEOPLE BREAKING INTO DOZENS OF CARS IN AN UPTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD EARLY THIS MORNING. THE BURGLARIES COME JUST ONE DAY AFTER THE NOPD TOUTED MULTIPLE VICTORIES WHEN IT COMES TO FIGHTING CRIME IN THAT SAME AREA. WELL, NEW AT TEN, WDSU REPORTER ELI BRAND SPOKE WITH SOME OF THE VICTIMS AND HAS WHAT THEY SAY NEEDS TO HAPPEN TO FIX THE PROBLEM. IT’S SOMETHING THAT YOU’RE STARTING TO HAVE TO CONSIDER AS JUST ANNUAL COST OF LIVING IN NEW ORLEANS, REPLACING WINDOWS, SOMETHING PEOPLE IN THIS UPTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD SAY NOT ALL THAT UNCOMMON. AND DEFINITELY WAS NOT STRANGE ON BOTH SYCAMORE AND BURDETTE STREET TUESDAY MORNING. NEIGHBORS SAY AROUND 50 CARS HAD THEIR WINDOWS SMASHED. THIS HAPPENED TO ME FOUR TIMES IN THE LAST THREE YEARS, TWICE IN OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS, ONE IN THIS, TWICE IN THIS EAST CARROLLTON NEIGHBORHOOD. TWO TIMES IN THE LAST MONTH AND WHICH IS ABOUT 400, $450 EACH TIME IT HAPPENS. THIS IS NATHAN DUTOIT’S CAR STILL MISSING. HIS PASSENGER SIDE WINDOW, HIS NEIGHBORS SECURITY CAMERAS CAUGHT MULTIPLE PEOPLE IN THE ACT OF SMASHING SOME OF THE CARS ON THE STREET AROUND TWO IN THE MORNING. IN THAT FOOTAGE, YOU SEE THEM SMASHING WINDOWS AND ONE PERSON EVEN DIVING INTO A CAR HEAD FIRST TO LOOK THROUGH IT FOR VALUABLES. IT’S NOT MURDER. AND NOBODY WAS HURT. BUT THIS IT YOU KNOW, IT CHANGES THE WAY YOU FEEL ABOUT BEING IN YOUR HOUSE. BEVERLY AND DAVID COOK LIVE ON SYCAMORE STREET. THEY HAD THEIR TRUCK WINDOW SMASHED. THEY SAY THEIR NEIGHBOR CALLED 911 AND POLICE WERE ON SCENE WHEN THEY WOKE UP EARLY IN THE MORNING IN OPD SAY SECOND DISTRICT OFFICERS RESPONDED TO SEVERAL VEHICLE BURGLARIES ON SYCAMORE STREET AROUND 2:00 THIS MORNING AND HAVE ARRESTED A JUVENILE WHILE INVESTIGATING THE BREAK INS. THEY SAY THAT JUVENILE HAD MULTIPLE OUTSTANDING WARRANTS AND THEY ARE CHECKING WHETHER OR NOT THEY WERE INVOLVED IN THE BREAK INS. OUR HANDS ARE UP IN THE AIR. LIKE WHAT DO WE DO? WE DON’T REALLY HAVE OF A SOLUTION REPORTING. ELI BRAND, WDSU, NEWS. AND ACCORDING TO THE NEW ORLEANS CITY COUNCIL, CRIME DASHBOARD, CAR BURGLARIES A
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Surveillance footage shows what neighbors call dozens of car break-ins in Uptown neighborhood
One juvenile was arrested during the investigation into the burglaries
Updated: 10:13 PM CST Nov 7, 2023
One juvenile was arrested, and “several” car burglaries were investigated by the New Orleans Police Department Tuesday morning around 2 a.m. after neighbors on Sycamore and Burdette Street say nearly 50 cars were broken into. Police say the burglaries are being investigated in the 7800 block of Sycamore. They also say the juvenile was arrested because they had outstanding warrants, and they are looking into whether or not they are involved in the early morning burglaries. “It has happened to me four times in the last three years, twice in other neighborhoods, twice in this East Carrolton neighborhood, two times in the last month. Which you know is about $400, $450 each time it happens,” said Nathan Dutoit, who had his car broken into Tuesday morning.One of Dutoit’s neighbors caught the people breaking into cars in the act on surveillance footage. In the video, you can see multiple people smashing windows and looking through cars. “It’s not murder and nobody was hurt, but it changes the way you feel about being in your house,” said Beverly Cook, whose husband’s truck had its window smashed. The string of burglaries takes place just one day after the NOPD lauded a new proactive policing strategy in the Uptown area that resulted in multiple arrests.
One juvenile was arrested, and “several” car burglaries were investigated by the New Orleans Police Department Tuesday morning around 2 a.m. after neighbors on Sycamore and Burdette Street say nearly 50 cars were broken into.
Police say the burglaries are being investigated in the 7800 block of Sycamore. They also say the juvenile was arrested because they had outstanding warrants, and they are looking into whether or not they are involved in the early morning burglaries.
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“It has happened to me four times in the last three years, twice in other neighborhoods, twice in this East Carrolton neighborhood, two times in the last month. Which you know is about $400, $450 each time it happens,” said Nathan Dutoit, who had his car broken into Tuesday morning.
One of Dutoit’s neighbors caught the people breaking into cars in the act on surveillance footage. In the video, you can see multiple people smashing windows and looking through cars.
“It’s not murder and nobody was hurt, but it changes the way you feel about being in your house,” said Beverly Cook, whose husband’s truck had its window smashed.
The string of burglaries takes place just one day after the NOPD lauded a new proactive policing strategy in the Uptown area that resulted in multiple arrests.