Jun 9, 2009 4:52 pm US/Pacific
Thief Steals U-Haul, Family's Car In Bell Gardens
BELL GARDENS, Calif. (CBS) ―
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Just hours after she arrived here, Jamie Santana had packed her life away into a U-Haul truck. On Monday, someone stole her rented truck with everything she owned inside along with her Ford mustang.
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It's not the way a Texas family planned to start their new lives in Southern California.
Just hours after she arrived here, Jamie Santana had packed her life away into a U-Haul truck.
On Monday, someone stole her rented truck with everything she owned inside along with her Ford mustang.
"I cried. I felt devastated," said Santana.
The truck and car were taken right in front of her mother's apartment in Bell Gardens.
"When you see a U-Haul, you know someone is moving something – going somewhere, starting over," Santana said. "I told my kids to take one week's worth of clothes on the airplane to get down here cause I was going to drive and bring everything else and I had nothing."
Authorities are investigating whether a security camera attached to a house across the street may have captured the crime in progress.
Santana said this is comparable to losing everything in a fire.
"Everything is gone and I didn't have insurance on the U-Haul. Because I could barely afford the gas to get down here," Santana said.
If you have any information about the incident, contact the Bell Gardens Police at (562) 806-7600
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