The redwood city police department is warning about hacker thieves who have expanded their focus to many other electrical devices besides the computer including hacking into garage doors.
Police and garage door crime.
On saturday police received a report in the 100 block of northeast coal creek road that a person s garage door was hit with paintballs overnight.
Hackers have found that older style handheld remote garage door transmitters can be bypassed with a little bit of electrical wiring finesse.
Burglars quickly took advantage after a man opened the garage door of his far west side residence to get the paper on sunday morning madison police reported.
If you park on the street choose a well lit open space.
About five minutes later the victim heard sounds of rustling in the kitchen and soon spotted an intruder in the house despain said.
Contact your building management and advise them to accelerate garage door timers.
By courtney teague patch staff.
Livermore police warn public of new crime trend people have been accessing homes through garage door openers in unlocked cars police said.
Crime placer county residents report possible politically motivated vandalism police are investigating after two garage doors in a lincoln neighborhood were spray painted.
Aside from locking cars in driveways roseville police encourage the use of key chain garage door openers and code keypads as alternatives.
Janesville police said jeffrey wood 47 intentionally drove his car through a closed garage door at the janesville police department on wednesday.
The officer said the two men drove into a garage at the rear of the home and tried to close the garage door but the officer simply set off a sensor lifting the door back open.
But did not close the overhead garage door.
But a sauk creek drive neighbor walking her dog saw the three young men in the garage going through a car and yelled at them scaring them off at about 8 20 a m police spokesman joel.
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