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A rash of vehicle thefts has been reported in El Dorado this week, prompting the police department to issue an advisory to local residents about properly securing their vehicles.

A total of five vehicles have been reported stolen since Sunday, with four of them taken in one night.

In all five cases, the thieves received a little help from the vehicles’ owners, who all left the doors unlocked and the keys inside, police said.

“That’s an unusually high number (of vehicle thefts), even in a week’s time. We had four stolen vehicles (Tuesday night). We want to ca...