SAN ANTONIO – Yiraikis Cogley was invited to celebrate her friend's 24th birthday Tuesday at Sumo Japanese Steakhouse off of I-10 near Wurzbach Road. She said she came out to her Nissan Altima after dinner to a surprise.
"Smashed window and a missing purse, all my documents (and) most important, my green card. That is the most important document," she said.
She said thieves smashed her passenger side window and took out her Louis Vuitton purse that she thought she had pushed far enough out of view.
"I didn't think it would happen to me. I've left my purse in my car plenty of times and it is never happened. This time I did not think it would happen," Cogley said.
San Antonio police report at least four car burglaries and an assault in less than a month at the location where Cogley was burglarized.
"It is my fault, really. You should never leave your purse in your car," she said.
The Panama native, who works as a customer service representative at a bank, said the moral of this story has been an expensive one. She estimated her total losses, including the costs to repair damages to her car, buy a new purse and obtain a new green card, at right around $3,000. Cogley said it's a case of family knows best.
"My grandma was right. Do not leave your purse in the car," she said.
