More than 100 personal storage units were burglarized in North Haven overnight into Tuesday and police are looking for the culprits who stole a luxury car among other things.
A string of break-ins happened at Stowaway Storage at 128 Quinnipiac Ave. Police were alerted by someone who noticed his 1996 Jaguar missing from his storage unit and discovered that locks on multiple other units at the facility were cut.
Lynn Kinsman, of Hamden, rushed to the storage facility after she was notified "to find out what happened," she said.
"My house was flooded in Florida and I put what was left in a storage unit for $3,000," she said. "Got it up here. I've been living at my sisters and I put my stuff in here and I have no idea what's left."
Later when she checked her storage unit, she said that she didn't lose anything of value. But she and other customers were troubled that a crime spree like this could happen at a storage facility they thought was secure.
"There's a fence around it," Kinsman said. "I thought it was a good storage unit.'
North Haven resident David Murzak also rushed over, concerned that his daughter's storage unit had been targeted, but luckily nothing was stolen.
"They have such a security system I don't know how they got through," Murzak said. "I really don't. Cameras all over. You need a code to get in and a code to get out and the cops are by here all the time."
Detectives are keeping a list of items stolen and are conducting interviews with people whose storage units were targeted, police said.
Storage facility workers declined to comment on the break-ins.
North Haven police ask anyone with information to call the station to inform police.
Police ask anyone who witnessed anything suspicious during the overnight hours between Dec. 28 and 29 to contact the North Haven Police Department's investigative services division at 203-239-5321.
