Erin Axton, a member of the Olympic Athletic Club (5301 Leary Ave NW), this morning has a warning for gym users – thefts are on the rise. This morning on King5 News she warns of theft in the women’s locker room at OAC. The thief did more than just steal her stuff from the gym, they also went to her car and stole about $3,000 worth of stuff inside, including her laptop, camera, expensive hand-bag, wallet with identification and charged her credit card, the news station is reporting.
Axton admits that she usually just hangs her jacket on a hook in the locker room and doesn’t lock it up in a locker. “I am partly to blame but I have done this for years. You don’t think someone is going to take your car keys and go walk around the block saying ‘oh it beeps, I’m going to go and take everything out of the car,’” Axton told King5.
Mark Durall, the general manager of the club, tells King5 that he’s gone through the surveillance tape from the camera outside the locker room, but can’t identify who took Axton’s belongings. Axton wasn’t the only victim that day, Durall told King5.
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