It's about this article reported in the dis news area:
Area attracts tourists -- and thieves
Posted on July 23, 2006 Email To Friend Print Version
Orlando Sentinel - After a recent string of car burglaries at hotels and tourist attractions, authorities are reminding Central Florida's residents and visitors not to let down their guard.
"People go out on vacation and relax, sometimes too much," said Orange County sheriff's spokesman Sgt. Carlos Torres. "They lower their guard, and they leave things in their vehicles."
From June 1 to July 5, Orange County sheriff's investigators logged 76 car burglaries on the southwest side of the county, home to many hotels and the Walt Disney World parks and resorts. Their counterparts at the Orlando Police Department, which patrols the Universal Studios area and International Drive, had more than 50 on record.
Volusia County has also had its share of break-ins, registering about 150 in unincorporated neighborhoods in the past four weeks.
Authorities think they caught the suspects in a majority of the July Fourth weekend burglaries in Orange County.
On July 6, Osceola County deputies arrested five Miami-Dade residents in Kissimmee, suspects in a car burglary in the area earlier that day. Inside their car, deputies found evidence linking them to many other area burglaries. One of the suspects told investigators that the group had committed as many as 100 burglaries in Central Florida. They were staying at the Comfort Inn in Lake Buena Vista.
Antonio Spann, 24, Jean Fenelon, 19, Kenny Phillips, 20, Jean Roche, 23, and Stephen Hall, 19, have all been charged with burglary and have other charges pending. They were released from jail after posting bond.
Hundreds of cars parked at Central Florida's hotels and tourist attractions makes the area ripe for this type of crime. The thieves know that tourists are likely to have valuables in their vehicles, Orlando police Sgt. Jim Stewart said.
"They think that because they locked the car, their things are safe."
On July 2, a Universal Studios-area hotel -- almost full to capacity -- had reports of break-ins at 15 cars in its parking lot. The same night, at least 18 more cars were burglarized in the area. Police think the same suspects were involved in all of the cases.
"It's really not something we can predict," Stewart said. "But it really goes with hotel traffic. The more business, the more likely this is to happen."
The method was the same in most of the burglaries in Orange County. The thieves smashed the passenger-side window, probably with an emergency window-puncher sold at most auto-part stores and then grabbed whatever they could reach: purses, computers, DVD players, phones and anything else of value.
In Volusia, however, the burglaries were mostly in cars that had been left unlocked, a spokesman with the Volusia County Sheriff Office said.
On July 3, the Lima family, in town for the holiday weekend from Hialeah, had their vacation ruined in an instant.
While they were at Disney's Blizzard Beach water park, thieves ransacked their SUV in the parking lot. They took more than $12,000 in jewelry.
"They took my wife's wedding band, with a 11/2-carat diamond, another ring with a ruby and diamonds, two Movado watches, all of our credit cards, and $200 in cash," Antonio Lima said.
Several other cars also were hit in the park that day, police reports show.
The Limas had stowed all of their jewelry inside a purse hidden under the passenger's seat. The thieves found it -- probably knowing that people often hide items of value there.
The Limas think Disney should provide better security.
"They charge a pretty penny; you'd expect them to at least have security cameras," Lima said. He said Disney security officers told him there were no cameras in the parking lot when he suggested they review the tape.
A Disney spokesman would not confirm whether the parking lots are monitored with cameras.
"I can't comment on specific security practices," spokesman Jacob DiPietre said. He said that guest safety was a top priority, and that the parking lots are patrolled by Disney security officers as well as deputies.
Someone, in that short little amount of time snatched it from behind DD. She was so upset. Couldn't believe someone would steal at WDW 
Well, lesson learned for all of us- It may be the most magical place on earth, but that doesn't mean that the real world and some of the bums in it don't go there. DH is still talking about it.
