Thieves steal equipment from 15-person band in San Jose

van full of a hundred thousand dollars worth of stolen equipment from a South Bay band and it was caught on camera the whole theft the band leader says that he was actually able to track the thieves using an air attack he even shot this video as the thieves were unloading the stolen gear but then he called police and Oakland Police took too long he says to respond putting him in a dangerous situation here's NBC barriers Marion Favreau the good news the band leader was able to get his van and his trailer back the bad news his trailer was empty for years Banda Nuevo estio has performed at weddings Quinceaneras and other events in the Bay Area but now leader Jairo Torres and his wife Elizabeth are wondering what's next after their van and trailer filled with musical equipment for the 15-person band was stolen Monday it was parked near their home off Branham Avenue in San Jose over a hundred thousand dollars invested my husband's hard work like years of work of sacrifices that's how you know we have family that's how we pay a random food everything so it's been it's sad in Spanish Jairo told us he used an air tag on the trailer to track it to Oakland so he drove to the location and this is what he found someone loading his equipment into a blue truck he says he shot this video and called 9-1-1 but says no one ever answered so he started following the truck and several other vehicles that took off his wife says that's when things turn Dangerous by the time they knew that he was following them they tried to hit his car and one of them like make like a U-turn and came like on the front trying to hit him so he just stepped on the side because he saw that they were armed Jairo says the men in the vehicles were wearing masks and held up guns he then went to the Oakland Police Department but when his air tag showed a new location he went to that spot and found his van and an empty trailer he also found some of the metal posts he uses to build his set strewn in the street he loaded them up into his trailer and returned home Jairo says his group has three gigs this weekend and he's had to buy some new equipment and borrow the rest to make sure his band can still perform Jairo says his equipment was not insured we reached out to Oakland PD to ask why Rose 9-1-1 calls went unanswered but we have not yet received a response Ohio says he did file a report with the San Jose police department and plans to do the same with the Oakland PD in San Jose Marianne Favreau NBC Bay Area News

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Keywords: banda nuevo estilo, san jose, san jose crime, caught on camera, crime

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Length: 2min 52sec (172 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 15 2023