A local man says his small business is taking a financial hit because of a recent theft.
Mike Bruno's covered work trailer was stolen around 4:30 a.m. on Oct. 11 and the entire theft was caught on surveillance cameras. Bruno uses the trailer to haul customers' carpet and furniture for his restoration company All American Carpet and Tile in Bay Ho.
Surveillance video appears to show two suspects exit a Jeep, walk over to the trailer and hook it up to their vehicle before driving away.
“It’s not nice! Nobody wants their stuff taken,” Bruno told NBC 7. "Especially when you work so hard to get that stuff and someone works for 7 minutes and takes it.”
Bruno said the night it was stolen, there was a rug, an equipment ramp and a washer and dryer he had just bought inside the trailer. The theft is costing the small business owner around $3,000.
“You’ve got to clean a lot of carpets to make $3,000,” Bruno said. "It’s not chump change, I’m a small business man. We have enough to pay for, not to have somebody take it away from us.”
While police investigate the crime, Bruno told NBC 7 that he and his employees are also doing some detective work—attempting to decipher the license plate on what appears to be a silver Jeep Liberty.
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“I’ve tried taking the graphics on photo shop,"said employee Tiffany Sorber. “We just really want to find these guys. It’s not right when something so mean happens to someone so nice. It’s not okay. It’s sad the world we live in."
