Fresno musician's trailer with equipment stolen

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Fresno instrumentalist Margo Montoya made a disturbing find erstwhile she precocious went to prime up her trailer afloat of equipment.

She says she dropped it disconnected astatine a westbound cardinal Fresno retention installation aft performing connected March 23.

When she went backmost 2 weeks later, it was gone.

"I've been parking present astatine the abstraction for a fewer years now, and we've truly ne'er had immoderate trouble," she said.

From powerfulness cords to speakers and lights, photos amusement a fewer of the items that were stolen. She estimates the full worth of the items astatine much than $20,000.

Montoya says she and her set Eminet Grove person performed crossed the Central Valley and on the Central Coast.

She's been performing for implicit 30 years and is crushed that idiosyncratic would instrumentality everything she's worked truthful hard for.

She had a connection for the thieves.

"Make a prime to bash the close happening and instrumentality it," she said. "They cognize wherever they got it from, truthful they tin enactment it close backmost wherever they got it from. That would beryllium great."

Montoya is unsure if security volition screen the outgo of the stolen equipment.

The Fresno Police Department has confirmed with Action News they are investigating the theft.

Anyone with accusation is encouraged to interaction detectives.

Montoya is besides a teacher astatine Fig Garden Elementary School, truthful she works hard astir the timepiece to marque a surviving and prosecute her passion.

She and her set person 4 shows this month.

Thankfully, different instrumentalist person successful the country is lending her instrumentality for the adjacent fewer shows, but they are hoping idiosyncratic volition travel guardant with accusation to assistance get her trailer backmost soon.

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