'Don’t assume it won’t happen to you': Student warns drivers after car theft
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A post-secondary student is warning car owners after her vehicle was stolen less than two days after she moved to Winnipeg.
A post-secondary student is warning car owners after her vehicle was stolen less than two days after she moved to Winnipeg.
On Aug. 2, Emilia Nowaczewski had just arrived in the city’s downtown from St. Paul, Minn., and was gearing up for her fourth year of sociology at the University of Manitoba. She said she ran errands with her roommate until Saturday afternoon, before parking the car she bought from her great-grandmother in a paid lot on Broadway near Edmonton Street.
But when she went back to her parking spot Sunday morning, her car was gone.
“I called my mom and I was like, ‘This towing company says they don’t have it,’” Nowaczewski recalled. “And she said, ‘Yeah, someone stole your car.’ It hadn’t even crossed my mind.
“I never in my life thought that someone would steal my 2002 Chrysler Concord,” she said.
Nowaczewski filed a report with the Winnipeg Police Service (WPS). Her call was one of more than 100 made between July 9 and Aug. 4 – all related to stolen vehicles.
According to data from the WPS, nearly 30 of 102 calls were in downtown Winnipeg alone, while 18 were in the city’s Point Douglas neighbourhood and 12 in River East.
