Montclair Police report there's been a rash of recent apartment and residential burglaries in the last few weeks. The most recent hits occured at Claremont Avenue, Walnut/North Fullerton, Orange Road and the 600 block of Valley Road.
We warned you not to leave your motor runnin', and now a word of caution from MPD: lock your windows, keep the exterior doors secure and report anything that seems unusual or suspicious to the police immediately. If there are problems with exterior doors or windows that do not lock, report it to the building super.
Um... duh?
A few years ago, all of the apartments on our floor got broken into... except ours. Why? Because we did the door know and the deadbolt so they burglars couldn't kick our door in as easily as the others who left the bolt undone.