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IS YOUR ENGINE RUNNING? NO JOKE, CAR MIGHT BE STOLEN.


Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Staff Writer

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 mornings are losing them to thieves.

Thefts of vehicles from driveways and curbs in front of homes have become frequent, just like thefts last winter, sheriff's deputies said.

``It seems like every day we get one or two of these,'' Lancaster sheriff's station Deputy Rick Nolte said.

On Wednesday about 7:25 a.m., a Ford F-150 pickup truck was stolen from in front of its owner's house on Parkmont Drive in far west Lancaster. About an hour earlier, a Nissan Frontier The Nissan Frontier, which is also known as the Navara in other parts of the world such as Australia, is a model of pickup truck assembled by Nissan and sold under the Nissan brand. Nissan was the pioneer of the compact pickup truck market in 1959, joined in the 1960s by Toyota.  pickup truck was stolen on Golden Jubilee For the diamond, see .

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 Lane in Littlerock.

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 a way home, Nolte said. Other thefts are by criminals who go out looking for vehicles to steal, sometimes with a partner driving them to canvass neighborhoods.

Deputies advised motorists not to leave their vehicles alone with the engine running or the key in the ignition.
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