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Glendora Police Warn About Gas Siphoning

High gas prices lead to surge in gas theft through siphoning.

Glendora police are warning motorists to keep cars parked in a garage if possible as high gas prices leads to higher incidents of gas siphoning by thieves.

AT 1:57 p.m. on Monday, police responded to NationalLink, 2235 Auto Center Dr., Glendora, where they learned that thieves had siphoned gas from a fleet of cars at the location. NationalLink is a provider of automated teller machines. It also services and repairs the machines.

“With gas prices going up, there is more of this,” said police Lt. Brian Summers.

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The police report did not say how many cars in the fleet had gas siphoned from them.

It is not the first such case since prices jumped to the current level of 3.55 to 3.97 per gallon for regular gas in Glendora. On Feb. 20, police responded to a report of gas siphoned from a car at the Glendora Tire & Brake Center, 221 E. Route 66.

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Police have yet to make an arrest in either of the cases.

And gas prices could go higher before they stabilize or start to drop. Part of the problem results from instability in Libya, a major oil producer, where protests against the government continue.

Summers said that both parking in locked garages and use of locking gas caps can prevent siphoning.

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