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The entire automobile theft scenario is affecting extra than simply passenger automobiles. We’ve seen an uptick in thefts of tow trucks, first responder vehicles, construction equipment, and sure even semi-trucks. A person in Lebanon, Tennessee snuck onto an public sale lot and took a semi which had the keys left inside.
Truck driver intentionally crashes through grocery store.
All of it went down at Ritchason Auctioneers again on June 7. A surveillance camera captured the man simply waltzing as much as a line of semis after he hopped a fence, getting inside one, and driving off. He crashed via a safety gate, inflicting 1000’s of {dollars} in injury.
Whereas this wasn’t a high-value heist – the semi-truck is barely valued at about $15,000 – the public sale firm is anxious. In spite of everything, it has cameras throughout, devoted safety, and employs off-duty deputies earlier than massive auctions when the lot is filled with hundreds of thousands of {dollars} price of equipment.
How the man was capable of get to the truck undetected isn’t fully clear. And the semi-truck hasn’t been seen since.
Ritchason Auctioneers proprietor Summer time Ritchason instructed WSMV that she’s involved concerning the theft and the way it makes her enterprise look. “We wish our prospects to know that their objects, we deal with them like they’re our objects. We’ve got loads of safety, and we don’t assume that is going to be a steady subject.”
Hopefully that is simply an remoted incident and never the beginning of a brand new development.
WSMV says native police have observed an uptick in semi-truck thefts, believing the public sale lot wasn’t particularly focused by the thief. The assumption is a truck theft ring is working within the space. We’ve seen totally different theft rings which think about a selected sort of auto earlier than, in order that doesn’t appear unreasonable.
Ritchason did word that within the days main as much as auctions, keys are left in vans so folks can take a look at them out. Maybe that coverage should be revisited in gentle of this theft?
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