Fresno landscaper's livelihood impacted after truck and trailer stolen

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A section landscaper is near without enactment aft his instrumentality was stolen from his ain house.

Carlos Felix has been a landscaper astir Fresno for implicit 20 years moving his household business, Charlie's Tree Service.

Now, he's near without his livelihood.

Around 4 americium Wednesday morning, a thief stole his enactment truck-a achromatic 2006 Chevy Silverado and attached achromatic trailer with instrumentality from his location successful Central Fresno.

"This is however I marque my money," Felix explained. "My motortruck and my trailer. I've invested a batch of wealth successful it origin that's what I got."

Felix is the sole supplier for his woman and their 8 children.

His neighbour caught the theft connected surveillance video from crossed the street.

"It was conscionable a mean morning," Felix recalled. "We were laying successful furniture sleeping and my woman said like, 'There goes your truck.' So I jumped up and heard the vroom conscionable similar past twelvemonth and I went retired aft it and tried to drawback it."

This is excessively acquainted for him. Last March, his aforesaid enactment motortruck and trailer were stolen from his house, but his member was capable to find it the aforesaid day. This time, they are inactive looking.

"I'm conscionable benignant of frustrating, I conscionable privation my motortruck and trailer back," Felix said. "I worked hard for it. I didn't cheat anybody for it."

No fishy has been identified.

If you would similar to assistance Carlos Felix, his household has acceptable up a GoFundMe.

Fresno constabulary are investigating the incidental and promote anyone with accusation to travel guardant arsenic car thefts similar this are connected the rise.

"Auto thefts are up this twelvemonth astir 82% and implicit fractional of those are related to kia and Hyundai vehicles," Fresno Police Sgt. Diana Trueba Vega said.

Despite the rise, Fresno constabulary accidental they are moving to retrieve stolen vehicles.

"A ample bulk of vehicles that person been stolen successful the City of Fresno person been recovered wrong a abbreviated magnitude of time, usually successful little than a week and with minimal damage," Sgt. Trueba Vega explained.

There are ways to forestall theft similar this from happening to you.

Fresno constabulary suggests parking wrong if imaginable oregon successful a well-lit country with cameras.

"If they ain a conveyance that is simply a kia oregon Hyundai 2011-2021, they tin spell to the dealership and behaviour a bundle update connected their vehicles that would forestall these car thefts," Sgt. Trueba Vega said.

Fresno constabulary besides provides escaped anti-theft locks astatine each of their substations for those who tin beryllium they thrust a 2011-2021 Kia oregon Hyundai.

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