Salt Lake police investigating Avenues vehicle registration
thefts Crime • Motives are uncertain since thief skipped over
valuables left in plain sight.  Salt Lake City police Thursday
continued to investigate who broke into nine different cars on
an Avenues street and made off with vehicle registration
paperwork.  Detective Dennis McGowan said the vehicles parked
along K Street were broken into and rummaged through Wednesday.
But perhaps most puzzling was the items the thief targeted.  In
several cases, the thief skipped over valuables left in plain
sight and instead stole the vehicle registration paperwork.
"There were other items, in some cases of value or relative
value, that were overlooked," McGowan said.  Nathan Postell
spent part of Wednesday morning armed with a broom, sweeping up
shattered glass. He had came over to help his girlfriend clean
up after the thief smashed it to gain access to the car.  He
said someone had obviously rifled through papers inside the car,
but somehow overlooked the regist