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WEBVTT , THEN SHE GOT IT BACK, ONLY TO HAVE IT AGAIN STOLEN LAST NIGHT, AND SHE HAD HAD ENOUGH. >> IT WAS SITTING A FOR 10 MINUTES. THEY CAME, WIND, AND IT WAS GONE. THAT WAS THE FIRST TIME. >> IT'S NOT LIKE SHE IS DRIVING A FANCY CAR, BUT HER KIA OPTIMA IS APPARENTLY IN DEMAND, STOLEN TWICE IN A MATTER OF DAYS. >> IT WAS HORRIBLE, ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE, HEARTBREAKING. >> SHE FIGURED IT WAS THE SAME GUY WHO HAD THE KEYS. SHE DID SOME SLEUTHING OF HER OWN AND WENT WITH HER BOYFRIEND WHERE IT WAS RECOVERED THE FIRST TIME AT SEVENTH AND MITCHELL AT 3:00 A.M. >> I BROUGHT MY KEY REMOTE. HE WAS DRIVING, AND THEN THE LIGHTS WENT OFF AND WE WERE LIKE, NO WAY. THERE IT WAS RIGHT IN FRONT OF OUR FACE. >> SHE CALLED POLICE, BUT WHEN THEY DID NOT COME QUICKLY, SHE TOOK ACTION. >> I WAS NOT SURE SOMEONE WAS GOING TO WAKE UP AND GET IN MY CAR AND TAKE OFF WITH IT, SO WHAT DO YOU DO? >> SO SHE HOPPED IN AND TOOK HER CAR BACK. >> I WALKED UP TO IT, GOT INTO IT, STARTED IT, AND THEN DROVE OFF. SHE FOUND SOME BULLETS AS WELL AS A DRUG SCALE IN THE CAR, WHICH SHE TURNED OVER TO POLICE. SHE SAYS SHE IS MOVING FROM HER HOME NOW. IN THE MEANTIME, HER CAR IS BEING CAPPED AT THE IN-LAWS. KATHY: THE NUMBER OF CAR THEFTS IN THE CITY OF MILWAUKEE IS DOWN SIGNIFICANTLY LAST YEAR.

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A Bay View woman took matters into her own hands and found her own stolen car after it was stolen twice from in front of her house. Her ordeal began this summer. She was taking groceries into the house and left her purse and keys on the seat. Someone hopped in and stole her car. She eventually got it back, only to have it stolen again. "Had to have been sitting there about 10 minutes, and they came and went, and it was gone. That was the first time," Kelsey Jensen said. Jensen's 2012 Kia Optima is apparently in demand -- stolen twice in a matter of days. "It was horrible, absolutely horrible. It was heartbreaking," Jensen said. The second time it was stolen, she figured it was the same guy, who still had the keys. She did some sleuthing of her own, and with her boyfriend went looking where it was recovered the first time, near 7th and Mitchell streets at 3 a.m. "I brought my key remote, and I was driving. He was clicking away, and the lights just went off, and we were like, 'No way, like, there it is right in front of our face,'" Jensen said. She called police, but when they didn't come quickly, she took action. "I got extremely impatient because I wasn't sure if someone was going to wake up and get in my car and take off with it because then what do you do?" Jensen said. After calling police back to make sure it would be OK, Jensen hopped in and took her car back. "I walked up to it, got into it, started it up and drove off," Jensen said. Jensen found a drug scale and some bullets in the car, too, which she turned over to police. After all this, Jensen said she's moving. Meanwhile, she's keeping her car at her in-laws' residence.