Police release video of food vending trailer theft
SAN JOSE >> Police are asking for the public’s help in finding a food vending trailer that was stolen on Sept. 13, leaving a San Jose family without its sole source of income.
Surveillance video released Monday shows two men in a white Chevrolet pickup truck towing the trailer away from a gas station at Berryessa Road and North Capitol Avenue.
“This trailer is owned by a family and they have now lost a major source of income during these tough economic times for small family owned businesses,” police said in news release.
Juana Quiroz Ayala and Francisco Ayala purchased the trailer for $70,000 and in 2015 opened Adelita Cocina Centroamericana y Mexicana. In an interview last week, the couple said the business was a way to move up and provide an economic base for their teenage sons.
The pandemic, however, hobbled the business, and the couple let the insurance lapse on the trailer. In recent weeks, things had started to improve and the couple was just two months away from paying off the trailer.
San Jose police released this image of a white Chevrolet pickup truck driving away with a food vending trailer that is a local family’s only source of income.
“We don’t know what to do now,” Ayala said. “We’re hoping to God that people take heart to help us — that we can still have our dream, that we can recover our business.”
The couple has established a GoFundMe and is seeking information about the theft.
Anyone who recognizes the pickup truck or has seen the food vending trailer can contact the San Jose Police Department’s auto theft unit at 408277-4051, and anyone who has seen the trailer’s license plate number — 4PT3825 — can call 408-277-8911.