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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The fishy who stole nearly $40,000 worthy of fireworks from the Bullard High School fireworks basal has been arrested.
After days of investigation, section instrumentality enforcement says Davina Cruz, 24, was arrested Thursday nighttime successful transportation with several charges, including burglary. Her bail was acceptable astatine $10,000 and she has since been bailed out.
While the Runnin' Knights Booster Club is blessed to spot an arrest, not each of the stolen inventory has been recovered. Now, clip is moving retired for the Bullard High Boys' Basketball Team arsenic they enactment to merchantability the fireworks they bash have.
"We are inactive successful the hole," said Varsity Assistant Coach, Travis Johnson.
Their goal for this Fourth of July is to conscionable interruption even. They inactive person to wage Phantom Fireworks for the merchandise they took for the fundraiser.
"We don't person security done Phantom," Johnson said.
The basal opened astatine the opening of the week, and aft conscionable 1 day, astir fractional of their banal was stolen. While the Fresno Police Department recovered immoderate of their product, it's not capable for the squad to marque a nett this year.
Each year, the fireworks basal tin make $30,000, which tin past beryllium utilized for question and different equipment.
"It's not truly the adults taking the hit. It's our kids," Johnson said.
"It's unfortunate. It's specified a bully area," said Tony Jaglassian, a customer.
Since the theft, the booster has taken other precautions to support its products safe.
"We started parking cars successful beforehand of the doors to marque definite that there's an other level of security. If you tin determination a car, that's beauteous adjacent level. But we're going to, we're going to support our eyes peeled and we're not leaving. We're going to beryllium present adjacent twelvemonth and the twelvemonth aft that, due to the fact that this is captious for our kids and our assemblage to travel done and beryllium a portion of it," Johnson said.
Johnson tells YourCentralValley.com that this week has been a acquisition successful perseverance for the team.
"It's casual to, to measurement away. And, you know, we're resilient. We amusement up."
Friday is the past time they tin merchantability these fireworks, truthful the basal connected Marks and Herndon avenues volition stay unfastened each nighttime until they tin get escaped of the remaining inventory.
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