'I just want it to stop': Sugar Land City Council candidate fed up with campaign sign thefts

Sugar Land City Council candidate Naushad Kermally said people have been stealing a large chunk of his campaign yard signs from his Telfair neighborhood each day. Sugar Land City Council candidate Naushad Kermally said people have been stealing a large chunk of his campaign yard signs from his Telfair neighborhood each day. Photo: Courtesy Of Naushad Kermally Photo: Courtesy Of Naushad Kermally Image 1 of / 38 Caption Close 'I just want it to stop': Sugar Land City Council candidate fed up with campaign sign thefts 1 / 38 Back to Gallery

Sugar Land City Council candidate Naushad Kermally wasn't miffed when someone stole 15 campaign yard signs from his Telfair neighborhood early Monday morning.

His volunteers had just installed 400 in one night the previous week, and he thought it was best to let it go.

Then, on Tuesday morning, he woke to find eight more signs missing. Then again on Wednesday.

"Every morning we're waking up, this is happening," he said. "So it's frustrating."

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Kermally, currently an executive at a privately held wireless company in Sugar Land, is a first-time candidate running to represent District 2.

He said more than 50 signs have gone missing since Monday, some of which he recovered in a trash can at a public park.

He said he has no idea why someone would target his signs, specifically.

"It's a nuisance to go back and replace these signs after my volunteers worked so hard to put out 400 signs in one night," he said.

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One of Kermally's neighbors recorded video of someone stealing a sign in their yard with home surveillance cameras. The culprit appeared in the video to be a female riding in the passenger seat of a white sedan.

He said they're stealing signs on different streets every day. People can be charged with a low-level crime for stealing yard signs, but he simply wants the end the petty thievery.

"I just want it to stop," he said. "I don't want anything else."

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