Residents woke up to broken car windows and stolen airbags

Some residents in Laurel, Maryland, woke up to their car airbags ripped out of their steering wheels Wednesday morning, according to police.

One resident, Leslie Santuo, said her Honda was one of the cars that was stolen from. Police knocked on her apartment door and asked her if the Honda was her car. When she said yes, they told her that her airbag had been stolen.

“I mean, I was pissed,” Santuo said. “I was on my way to work.”

Twenty-three cars were broken into and most of them were Hondas, according to police. People started calling police at 4:30 a.m.

“I never even knew that airbags could be stolen,” Santuo said. “As opposed to everything else I had in my car, they just decided to take the airbag. And left the money. Left everything else, whatever else I had that might’ve been important.”

Police are investigating who stole the airbags and hope someone with surveillance video can help identify who broke into the cars. Laurel police’s public information officer Laura Guenin said they’re looking for residential or business cameras that might have caught anything.

“If it looks suspicious, put it into our portal. We have a QR code out there that they can upload it to,” Guenin said.

The QR code is located on the Laurel police department’s social media accounts.