Some holiday travelers will come home to broken doors and shattered windows this Christmas after Columbia Police respond to multiple overnight burglaries.
Police report 19 burglaries happened overnight, and 12 of those occured on Rolling Rock Dr. on Columbia's south side. The reports come after another string of burglaries in both November and December.
"We have every reason to believe that the burglaries from this morning are related to earlier reports our department has received regarding recent burglaries during November and December," said Jessie Haden of the Columbia Police Dept. in a press release Friday.
Christmas Eve break-ins put December's burglary count at 72. And in November, the department received 42 residential burglaries. Police attribute the spike to suspects taking advantage of holiday out-of-towners.
Investigators are working all cases, and could make patrol changes to deter future incidents.
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