Petty thieves are on the loose in Cessnock, with several reports of shoes being stolen from the front of people’s homes.
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Cessnock residents reported cases of footwear theft from all across town to The Advertiser’s Facebook page earlier this week.
Danielle Power said she had a pair of boots and thongs taken from her Aberdare home about a week ago.
A South Cessnock resident who did not want to be named said she had a pair of shoes stolen from her house on Sunday night.
One of the shoes was found nearby the next morning.
Nikki O’Brien said she had a pair of shoes stolen from her inside her fenced yard on Cooper Street about two weeks ago.
“We didn’t report it because we thought the police would laugh at us,” Ms O’Brien said.
Jade Hafey reported that a pair of her runners and three pairs that belonged to her partner were stolen from his front doorstep in Church Street last Wednesday night.
Around the corner in Lightfoot Street, Courtney Stacey said her husband’s car was broken into about two weeks ago.
Thieves stole a backpack, some clothes, an engine scanner and a pair of sunglasses.
Ms Stacey said the items had been purchased overseas, meaning they were hard to replace.
Milly Goldman’s partners car was ransacked in Mavis Street about two weeks ago as well, but nothing was stolen.
After alerting people to the issue through a Facebook post, Ms Goldman said she found out that two other people in the same street had shoes stolen recently as well.
East Cessnock resident Emma-Lee Lewis said two people tried to hot-wire a car in her yard on Monday night that her husband had been working on as a project.
She said it was lucky the car had a flat battery, or else it may have been taken.
And the robbers aren’t just lurking in the night - Debbie Morris reported that her car number plates were stolen last Wednesday in broad daylight from the Cessnock Ex-Services Club car park.
The latest crime statistics show that theft from motor vehicle incidents in Cessnock had risen by 84 in a year.
The NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics report showed that from April 2015 to March 2016, 553 instances of theft from motor vehicle had been reported, up from 469 from April 2014 to March 2015.
However, the number of thefts from dwellings reported had decreased from 273 to 264 in the same period.