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CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A bizarre early-morning theft successful Clovis has near a pistillate without the wheels connected her car. Security footage shows the thieves leaving her Toyota Corolla connected bricks aft making disconnected with each 4 of her wheels.
"I conscionable americium successful implicit and utter shock," said Dominique Lee. "I instantly called my mom. And I'm conscionable crying due to the fact that I'm expected to spell to work. I person things to do. I can't spend this."
Dominique Lee lives successful an flat analyzable adjacent to the intersection of Bullard Avenue and Minnewawa Avenue successful Clovis. On the greeting of Oct. 24, she was awoken by the quality that her wheels were nary longer connected her car.
"So I spell retired there, maine and my boyfriend, and we conscionable instrumentality a look astatine the car, and it's conscionable perfectly devastating."
Dominique called Clovis Police and filed a report. She was besides capable to get information footage of the theft - and the radical responsible. The footage tin beryllium seen successful the video subordinate above.
"They went consecutive to my car. They pulled up, backed retired and parked. This was 100% planned. There's nary imaginable mode that they conscionable passed by and was like, 'you cognize what? I'm going to instrumentality these tires and conscionable bash it close past and there.' This was 100% planned."
Stealing wheels from Toyotas successful Clovis is not a caller crime. In August, Clovis Police warned astir a drawstring of thefts along a one-mile agelong of flat complexes betwixt July 25 and Aug. 8. Officers noticed that each the thefts were from Toyotas. This theft was from a Toyota Corolla.
Dominique Lee says determination person been thefts from vehicles parked successful the flat analyzable earlier - but not wheels. After it happened, her boyfriend's parent looked online and recovered what appeared to beryllium the stolen wheels for merchantability connected societal media. Dominique recognized the scratches connected the wheels arsenic scratches she had made. She reached retired to the Clovis Police Department for assistance but was told that due to the fact that the wheels were being sold successful Merced it was up to the Merced Police Department to help.
In a connection to YourCentralValley.com, Clovis Police confirmed that a telephone was made astir the theft - and that officers referred Dominique to the Merced Police Department erstwhile it was established that the wheels were being sold successful Merced.
Dominique past reached retired to the Merced Police Department to spot if they could assistance her.
"I had asked them, if I did determine to conscionable up with [the seller], if they would bash what's called a civilian standby alternatively of maine going and past having to telephone the cops close past and determination if they could beryllium determination near," said Dominique. "And the bull that I spoke to, I don't retrieve the name, said that they bash not bash civilian standby similar that. Only the sheriff's section does."
In a connection to YourCentralValley.com, the Merced Police Department says that effect was incorrect: they bash assistance successful cases similar this.
"We don't bash civilian standbys, but we decidedly bash assistance with cases this," said Merced Police Captain Joey Perez.
Perez explained that the occupation was miscommunication: the serviceman who took the telephone heard "civil standby" and told Dominique that was not thing the section did. Merced Police would assistance with a theft similar this, but the enactment would not beryllium called "civil standby."
"We're going to beryllium addressing that with the officer," said Perez.
Meanwhile, Dominique Lee has claimed connected her car security - and volition beryllium buying instrumentality locks to assistance marque definite this does not hap again.
She besides has a connection for the radical who stole her wheels.
"Get a existent job, due to the fact that radical enactment hard for their money."
