MPD probes 87-car window-smashing spree; victims face repeat costs
Minneapolis police are investigating a spree that left 87 vehicles with smashed windows across nine neighborhoods, local reporting said.[1]
Ivan Koh said he discovered his car window smashed on 1st Avenue South and saw seven or eight other damaged cars nearby.[1] Koh told FOX 9 this was his second break-in in less than three weeks; the first time thieves took about $20, and the second time nothing was stolen but the window was destroyed.[1] He said repeated repairs are draining his savings as he prepares to start an unpaid internship, and that the incidents have him second-guessing his move to Minnesota.[1]
FOX 9 first ran a short report about the break-ins at 1:03 PM Saturday.[2] The station updated the story at 9:33 PM with victim interviews and the 87-car tally.[1]
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📌 Key Facts
- Police are investigating a spree that left 87 smashed windows across nine neighborhoods, according to the FOX 9 report on the incident; see the details on the "87 smashed windows" 87 smashed windows.
- Victim Ivan Koh told the station he discovered his car window smashed on 1st Avenue South and saw seven or eight other damaged cars nearby, as described by "Ivan Koh" Ivan Koh.
- Koh said this was his second break-in in less than three weeks — in the first incident thieves took about $20, and in the second nothing was stolen but the window was destroyed — described in his account of the "second break-in" second break-in.
- Koh said repeated repairs are draining his savings as he prepares to start an unpaid internship and have him second‑guessing his move to Minnesota, a hardship he linked to the incidents and his upcoming "unpaid internship" unpaid internship.
- The story was reported by FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul on Saturday, August 22, 2026, in the piece titled "Minneapolis car break-ins: Police investigate 87 smashed windows across 9 neighborhoods"; see the FOX 9 report at "FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul" FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul.
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- FOX 9 interviews victim Ivan Koh, who discovered his car window smashed on 1st Avenue South and saw seven or eight other damaged cars nearby.
- Koh reports this is his second break-in in less than three weeks; the first time thieves took about $20, the second time nothing was stolen but the window was again destroyed.
- Koh says repeated repairs are draining his savings as he prepares to start an unpaid internship and that the incidents have him second-guessing his move to Minnesota.