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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - More than $25,000 worth of accumulation cogwheel was stolen from Fresno State's campus. The university's in-house video accumulation team, Bulldog Vision, faced not 1 but 2 thefts.
Fresno State keeps the stadium and surrounding sports fields locked beauteous tight. So Bulldog Vision's Athletic Director, Brad Blackstone, says the thief oregon thieves had to leap anyplace from 2 to 4 gates to get onto campus.
The latch of the Bulldog Vision trailer was chopped off, bypassing the fastener determination to support the equipment.
"They didn't adjacent fuss with the lock. They conscionable ruined it," Blackstone said. "They were capable to unfastened up and you know, they conscionable had access."
Blackstone says the trailer holds each the instrumentality needed and doubles arsenic a power room, to enactment connected the Mountain West broadcast for each Fresno State sports and tally the video committee astatine games, among a agelong database of different things.
"It's each encompassing. It's each of the coaches' video, it's highlights, it's broadcasts, property conferences, interviews, immoderate it needs to be," helium said.
The achromatic trailer sits extracurricular the shot stadium during the play and is not protected by a information camera. Last Saturday, erstwhile Blackstone came successful to commencement preparing for the large game, helium noticed the damage.
"It was conscionable trashed," helium said.
New cameras, a laptop, a fibre container and different important instrumentality were gone.
"I was connected the cart implicit to Save Mart, grabbing parts and pieces and immoderate we needed truthful we could person a crippled day," Blackstone said.
While the amusement inactive went on, Blackstone put successful the archetypal constabulary study and took what was near of the costly instrumentality retired of the trailer. But travel Tuesday morning, Blackstone says the bandits targeted the bulldogs erstwhile again.
"Soccer manager recovered a lock, retired connected the tract cut. Like it was retired there, which means either that feline got an limb oregon they carried it crossed the tract and conscionable dropped it retired determination for immoderate reason," Blackstone said.
This time, conscionable a fewer things were stolen, like a camera charger and a microphone.
"They truly didn't cognize what they were doing. A batch of the equipment's precise niche," Blackstone said.
He says the much than $25,000 worth of instrumentality is not truly thing you tin instrumentality to a pawn store and that the cogwheel has serial numbers and Fresno State tags.
Fresno State's Police Department's Public Information Officer Alma Hernandez says if the cogwheel shows up for sale, they volition beryllium connected it. She said that the detectives are moving with surveillance operators and are going done footage and hopes it whitethorn pb to a tip.
Blackstone says they're moving the trailer adjacent the constabulary substation, wherever determination are surveillance cameras to support an oculus connected the gear. Fresno State Police say they person ramped up patrols successful the area.
If you cognize thing astir the thefts connected campus, they are asked to telephone the Fresno State Police Department, 559-278-8400.
