LANA resident expresses concerns after alleged vehicle break-in

JACKSON, Tenn. – One man is sharing his concern over community safety after he says his vehicle was broken into.

This concerned citizen believes he captured the alleged criminals scouting out his vehicles days before on video.

Zach Coleman, a resident of the Lambuth Area Neighborhood Association, claims someone broke into his wife’s vehicle.

He says after he and his wife left to get food one night, the couple came back to discover her vehicle had been broken into. Coleman believes somehow the alleged thieves were able to get his wife’s keys and use them to get inside her vehicle.

“I said, ‘Well check your Apple app for the air tag.’ And she’s like, ‘They’re showing a few streets over,’” Coleman said.

Coleman called the Jackson Police Department dispatch and requested an officer to come and assist with the retrieval of the keys. They found the keys in someone’s trash can a few blocks away.

“We opened the garbage can up and sure enough the remnants of the keys were in there. They had taken off the fob off the key chain and both of our vehicles off the key chain and threw the rest in the garbage,” Coleman said.

When they began looking through his wife’s vehicle, they realized sunglasses had been taken, the seat adjusted, a/c had been turned off and heat turned on, and a radio station she doesn’t normally listen to was turned on.

“I started going through my Tesla’s sentry video footage and had discovered video from a couple of nights before where, obviously, they were scouting and they tried to get into my vehicle,” Coleman said.

In the footage you can see two individuals approach the vehicle and go for the door handles. 

We chose to blur their faces due to the possibility of them being minors. Coleman believes when the neighbors garage light came on, the two panicked and ran away.

Footage from the rear of the vehicle shows them run down the driveway and turn onto the street.

Coleman says crime such as what happened to him happens fairly often in the LANA neighborhood.

He says a lot of his neighbors have some of the same complaints that he has, such as vehicular break ins and other crime.

“I feel like the community deserves to, you know, have some attention drawn to the fact that this is ongoing whether or not anyone else is mentioning it,” Coleman said.

Coleman said he really wanted to stress the importance of buying proper security cameras or any other amenities that you can add onto your house to prevent yourself from becoming a victim also.

Coleman tells us the Jackson Police Department says they can’t take any action until the two individuals are identified.

Coleman says he is offering a $200 reward for anyone who can identify the two individuals in the video.

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