Melissa Greer
News Reporter
A student’s car was stolen in broad daylight while plans to increase police patrols on campus were being made by Toronto police.
Second-year post-graduate journalism student, David White, 23, has viewed security video of his car being stolen from North Campus last week.
“You can definitely see one person outside the car pushing it out of the parking space and there seemed to be someone else inside the car steering it,” said White, an Et Cetera editor.
“They push it into the middle of the parking lot and another car comes up behind it and actually physically pushes it out of the lot and into the road.”
Campus security handed the video over to Toronto police, said director of public safety, Gary Jeynes.
Staff Sgt. Glenn Barenthin confirmed the theft had been reported to police and came at a time when 23 Division was implementing a new program to increase patrols on North Campus.
White discovered his blue, 2008 Toyota Yaris missing from Lot 1, between the L wing and the residence buildings, at about 5 p.m. on March 22.
“I just thought for the longest time that I forgot where I parked it, and when I first went to security, they thought the same thing,” he said. “It wasn’t until I went with security in a jeep, up and down every row of the parking lot, that they finally took me seriously and decided to call the cops.
“I don’t really have much confidence that I’m ever going to see it again,” said White.
Jeynes said about one car is stolen on both North and Lakeshore campuses each year.
Toronto police and campus security have increased patrols on campus after several unrelated crimes, including an armed robbery, a week before the car theft.
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