Woman arrested in South Loop garage burglaries

04/01/2010 11:23 AM

By Micah Maidenberg
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Police officers arrested a 33-year-old woman at her home in Bridgeport on March 30. They say she was responsible for burglarizing vehicles parked in South Loop residential garages.
Jaclyn Kulovitz is charged with four counts of burglary. Police spokesman Officer John Mirabelli said plainclothes officers from the 1st District and Area 4 detectives started to see a pattern at neighborhood residential parking garages that had been burglarized: a "well-dressed" woman, often on a bicycle or in a vehicle would slip into the garages as residents were leaving and entering. Inside the garage, the suspect would allegedly break into cars, taking everything from suits to laptop computers to checkbooks.
Information from witnesses and video surveillance allowed officers to come up with an identity and arrest Kulovitz on March 30, Mirabelli said.
Mirabelli said the burglaries were sporadic, but the last two of them occurred in March.
A spokesperson for the Cook County State's Attorney's Office said Kulovitz appeared in bond court yesterday, where Judge Adam Bourgeois set her bail at $100,000, with the requirement she post 10 percent of it to be let out. As of 11 a.m. April 1, Kulovitz was still in custody, according to the sheriff's department.
Kulovitz's next court date is April 6 at Belmont and Western.
South Loop residents with information about parking garage burglaries should contact Area 4 property crime detectives at 312-746-8253.


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