“Almost everything was gone,” she said. “Only the snacks we took for the road were left. They took everything they thought would be of value.”

Myco said that the car wasn’t packed to the brim and that only sleeping bags were visible from her car windows. She said the cash and expensive items such as the two computers were hidden.

She said she checked three times that the car was locked, and didn’t see any sign that she should have been concerned about theft. There were several other vehicles parked in the area around her parking spot, which was just in front of an apartment complex, Myco said.

“Never would I have imagined that my car would be broken into in broad daylight when there were a lot of people around,” she said. “I had no idea I had to worry about a public street downtown, or I wouldn’t have gone there.”

Myco said whoever broke into her car had to take their time to find her expensive items. “They really had to dig through the car to find some of the things they took,” she said. “They went out of their way to take what wasn’t theirs.”

She also said it would have taken more than one person to carry the bags from the car. “Those bags were heavy,” she said.