CBD resident Jess Waltman found his car missing a passenger window on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026.
CBD resident Jess Waltman found his car missing a passenger window on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026.
New Orleans police Tuesday were investigating separate burglary sprees in the Central Business District and Treme involving more than two dozen vehicles, including some that were left with shattered windows.
About 12 cars in a CBD parking garage in the 1100 block of Girod Avenue were broken into on Tuesday morning and another 15 were targeted in Treme, according to the New Orleans Police Department. NOPD officials said the burglaries were believed to be unrelated and no arrests had been made in either case as of Tuesday afternoon.
Jess Waltman, 34, found his white Chevy Tahoe where he left it on the fifth floor of a Premium Parking garage on the corner of Girod and O’Keefe Avenue at around 11 a.m. Tuesday, but his passenger window was shattered and a watch he’d received as a Christmas gift was missing.
“It was a wreck,” he said.
Waltman, who lives in one of several CBD apartment complexes nearby, said he had planned to leave New Orleans that morning for a business trip in Baton Rouge and had left his clothes packed in the car overnight.
The watch was the only thing missing, Waltman said, but he hit the road late after spending over an hour cleaning broken glass out of his car and talking with police. He was also forced to make the 80-mile trip to Baton Rouge with a missing window on a brisk, 50-degree day.
Waltman said he pays around $250 a month to park in a covered, off-street garage, a cost he decided to take on after his car was burgled for the first time in 2022 while parked on the road near Julia and Commerce streets. The garage has security cameras, but Waltman said he hasn’t seen guards on site for some time. He’d like to see parking vendors across New Orleans put security “at the forefront” of their operations, he said.
Premium Parking did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Treme and CBD burglaries follow a shocking rash of arsons in the Bywater, where at least eight cars and a house were intentionally set on fire on Monday.
Email Kasey Bubnash at kasey.bubnash@theadvocate.com.
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