ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A brazen theft in broad daylight, all caught on camera: surveillance video captured the moments two thieves ripped off an Albuquerque couple’s travel trailer, right from their front driveway. News 13 spoke with the victim, who has a warning for others.
It was no April Fool’s joke when Amy Bishop got the call from her neighbors that someone had stolen her new travel trailer, right out of her driveway.
“She’s like, ‘No, here’s the video.’ So I got the video then and I was like, ‘Oh, yeah, there it goes,” Bishop recalled, “Somebody had come in and backed up within less than ten minutes broke the lock off, hooked up my trailer, and drove away with my travel trailer.”
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It happened Monday, April 1, at around 11:30 am at their home near Juan Tabo Boulevard and Montgomery Boulevard. “I’d probably say they did it in six, seven minutes,” Bishop says, “And no trying to hide it. They weren’t trying to hide who they were.”
Neighbors even caught the two thieves in the act, and can be heard on the surveillance video yelling at them: “Hey! Cops are on their way, man.” But, that didn’t stop them from driving off.
Other neighbors who recently moved in tell News 13 they’re shocked by the news. “Are there police that are going to be doing some driving around? Or what, are there any plans that you? You know, it’s upsetting,” said Vivian Barondes, who lives across the street.
Bishop says she had the travel trailer for less than a year and only got to use it a couple of times. She says having her belongings brazenly taken like this feels violating.
“How do you progress and go forward too? Because if I put another one out there, is the same thing going to happen? You know, so we’re going to have to look at other systems of locking and putting it up,” Bishops said.
She says even having a lock on her travel trailer hitch wasn’t enough to keep these thieves away. “I would look into like wheel-based locks if there’s other ways you can even block the front of it somehow,” Bishop says, “A trailer lock hitch, a lock on the hitch is not enough to keep it safe.”
Bishop believes the two cars the thieves were driving were a white GMC Yukon and a white Toyota Tacoma.
Bishop says they have filed a police report with the Albuquerque Police Department, but don’t have much hope of getting the travel trailer back.
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