Port St. Lucie Police Tell Residents 'Lock It Or Lose It'

Police in Port St. Lucie are investigating after nearly a dozen cars were burglarized over the weekend, with two residents reporting handguns missing from their vehicles.

Another discovered their car had been stolen when they woke up on Saturday morning. All of the crimes happening in the area near Airoso Boulevard and Floresta Drive, near Sportsman's Park.

Surveillance video shows two men in hoodies and masks scoping out a vehicle before moving on to another car down the street and pulling on one of the doors. That was in the 3 a.m. hour.

Police Chief Richard Del Toro says there was also a string of burglaries elsewhere in St. Lucie County, outside his agency's jurisdiction.

His message for residents is "lock it or lose it," claiming all of the victims left their car doors unlocked. unowners are also urged not to leave their weapons in their unattended and unlocked vehicles, because that is one of the common ways that guns get on the streets.

Cases are rising of illegal guns being used in homicides, and the FBI says perpetrators are getting these weapons from stolen cars.

The stolen car in this recent string of burglaries was found abandoned in Fort Pierce, but authorities are still searching for the two suspects involved.