Police investigate bizarre break-in

ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - A bizarre break-in left one Albuquerque woman stunned.

“People walking through neighborhoods…people driving through neighborhoods wanting to basically see what they can take and what can be taken. It's just, it's just common nature,” Rudy Garcia said.
    
Thursday afternoon Gwen Poe left her car in her driveway expecting to leave soon, but her plans changed.

“About 8:00 in the evening I went and put my car in the garage, but I didn't think anything of it at the time because I just went from here to there,” Poe said.
    
Poe didn't notice anything wrong then, but by Friday morning she realized something was not right.
    
Mints were strewn about a small radio and some sentimental CD’s were missing.
    
Poe then learned whoever did it had also been snooping around another house because they left a magazine addressed to a neighbor.
    
“I don't always leave it unlocked, but I thought I was going out in a short time,” Poe said.
    
Garcia, captain of the area's neighborhood watch, says right now could be a bad time to forget to lock up.
    
He says they did not see many break-ins to cars or homes this winter, but a few car break-ins have been reported in the surrounding area in the last week. 

“99 percent of the time it's just carelessness on our part. Garage doors left open, people leaving valuables in their car,” Garcia said. “When we do patrols we see purses in cars, backpacks in cars, windows down, unlocked, garage doors up, front doors left open.”
    
He says as temperatures raise, so do the number of burglaries because crooks are walking neighborhoods.
    
Police have not made any arrests for the break-in in Poe’s neighborhood.