The underlying incident in this case actually happened back on May 4th but it’s getting some attention now because the local police chief came out and made some comments about how the system is handling it.
What happened is that a small group of teens, possibly just 3 people, ran rampant on a single night breaking into dozens of cars. Initial reports said there had been a total of 47 break-ins in Laurel, Maryland overnight.
“We had over 47 vehicle break-ins that we took reports for this morning,” said Laura Guenin, a spokeswoman for the Laurel Police Department. “They happened in the early morning hours of today, May 4. We got our first call around 4 a.m.”
Here’s a local news report from the next day.
But in fact it was worse than that. The number of break-ins in Laurel was eventually…
