Private Detective, Off-Duty Police Officer Captures Man Allegedly Behind 44 Car Break-Ins

With just one arrest, Lexington Police closed the book on 44 cases of cars being broken into at places like gyms and several area parks and it was a sharp-eyed off duty Lexington police officer that brought these cases to a close.

Police say Jeffery Chenoweth, of Washington County, commutes to Lexington where he works pouring concrete. According to investigators, he’s been quite busy in his off hours as well.

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Since January, police say he’s broken into 44 vehicles at places like LA Fitness, Wellington, Masterson Station, Shillito Parks and Legacy Trail.

Detectives were racking up so many cases of smash and grab thefts, that a Lexington Police Sergeant set up a camera in one of the parks and it wasn’t too long after that, that they identified their suspect’s vehicle and got a partial plate.

“A couple of weeks later, I was working out LA Fitness on Palumbo and just happened to observe a vehicle matching the description and the partial plate,” says Detective Nate Williams

Det. Nate Willliams says 36-year-old Jeffrey Chenoweth would stake out parking lots, sitting up high in his green Ford Expedition. When he saw a woman leave her car without her purse, he’d pull up beside the car, open one of his doors, bust the window and grab the bag.

Williams is confident Chenoweth was on the prowl again.

But for now, his alleged side job of hitting five to six cars a week is over.

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