Santa Clarita / Antelope Valley : Truck Thief Rolls Away With Load of Bowling Equipment
Authorities are trying to locate about 13 tons of bowling equipment and the truck being used to haul it after both were stolen during the weekend.
The truck was headed from Orange to Springfield, Ore., when the driver stopped in Castaic on Saturday night, said Dave Selzler, president of the American Bowling Corp., which owns the equipment. Selzler said the bowling machines, bowling pins, paperwork and other items in the trailer cost about $50,000, but have little or no street value for the thieves.
“I think they either took it by mistake or they wanted something else,” he said.
According to a report by Deputy Renee Dibb of the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station, the burglary occurred between 8 p.m. Saturday and 8 a.m. Sunday on the Lake Hughes Road overpass across the Golden State Freeway. The truck driver, David Shaver, 52, of Castaic told deputies the truck was legally parked and no debts were owed on it.
The big rig was worth about $39,500, the trailer $15,000, Dibb reported. Shaver said he had about $1,500 worth of personal items inside, including tools and a combined television/VCR machine.
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