Claudia Owens depended on her Ford-150 Raptor to help her move beginning this weekend. But she will have to wait a few weeks until the truck is back from the shop.<\/p>\n
SAN ANTONIO \u2014 A San Antonio woman says she\u2019s frustrated and confused after discovering thieves targeted her truck overnight\u2014stealing only the taillights and leaving everything else untouched.<\/p>\n
The theft happened within the Stone Ridge neighborhood off Wetmore and Wurzbach between 10 p.m. Tuesday and 5 a.m. Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Claudia Owens said she realized something was wrong when she opened her garage door Wednesday morning and saw her 2019 Ford F-150 Raptor with the tail gate down.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI made a couple calls and said I wasn\u2019t going to be into work this morning,\u201d Owens said. \u201cI thought that was kind of weird because I wasn\u2019t getting anything out of the truck.\u201d<\/p>\n
When she walked closer, she realized the tail lights had been completely stripped. Despite having cash, her work phone, and her purse inside the vehicle, none of those items were taken.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe weird thing is that they didn\u2019t take anything from the inside,\u201d Owens said. \u201cThey only took the taillights.\u201d<\/p>\n
Owens says the damage will cost her about $3,500 to repair, although insurance will cover much of the financial damage. It\u2019s the inconvenience factor that\u2019s especially troubling for Owns who was preparing to move this weekend and had depended on her truck to help.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cVery frustrating with my truck getting hit last year,\u201d Owens said. \u201cMakes you feel kind of unsafe in the neighborhood.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lonnie Johnson, service manager at Ruben\u2019s Auto Repair in San Antonio, noted cases like this are not unheard of. He said that thieves can remove taillights in just minutes, and certain models of the F-150, are especially attractive to thieves because of the expensive components that can be resold or used for their own rigs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is something we do see,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cWe don\u2019t produce a lot (taillights and other components) in this country. We have to get everything from abroad, so it can cause a parts delay, and sometimes it\u2019s just quicker for people to go out and take one off somebody else\u2019s car.\u201d<\/p>\n
Owens said she isn\u2019t confident police will find whoever stole the parts. For now, she\u2019ll be getting around on her motorcycle and company car until repairs are made. She also had a message for whoever is profiting off of her taillights.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope it pays for something they really need.\u201d<\/p>\n
San Antonio police are investigating. No suspects have been identified at this time.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Claudia Owens depended on her Ford-150 Raptor to help her move beginning this weekend. But she will have…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":391105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-391104","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-san-antonio","10":"tag-sanantonio","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115579355370855968","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}