ALLENDALE, Mich. (WOOD) — There are increased patrols on Grand Valley State University's campus, after a string of break-ins and car thefts on campus.

Grand Valley State University Department of Public Safety sent two different emails to students on campus alerting them of the incidents.

In the first email, police said that they had received several reports of car thefts on both their Allendale and Grand Rapids campuses, between August 18-22. The break-ins happened in the early morning hours in residential housing parking lots, police said.

On Tuesday morning, police said two cars were stolen from a campus lot. The cars were parked in Lot D at GVSU’s Allendale campus.

"They do bring a lot of high value items in as well and our lots fill up pretty quickly during those next few days of m

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