Pittsburgh Police and Pittsburg High School are looking into the theft of the marching show band’s trailer from their campus on Christmas Day, which was later discovered in Antioch, approximately four miles away.
Jennifer Martinez, the director of the Pittsburg High School Marching Show Band, told CBS News Bay Area, “It stays at the high school behind locked gates, but whoever took the trailer cut the locks and managed to get to where it’s located and drove it offsite.”
She claimed that this was the second time the trailer for the show band had been taken.
The band’s booster president, Fernando Lozano, told CBS News Bay Area, “We won’t be able to put the instruments in there because you could see all the shelving that was taken off.”
The trailer’s inside illumination was taken by the suspect or suspects. Luckily, there were no instruments kept there.
When Martinez and Lozano discovered that their trailer had been taken, they immediately resorted to social media.
“Thanks to someone who gave us a tip, we were able to come by and find our trailer,” Martinez stated.
It was on the 1300 block of Verne Roberts Circle in Antioch, some four miles away. On Saturday night, police arrived to look into what had been left behind.
We truly need it as a program that is expanding. And it’s quite unfortunate that someone would target a student program in that way,” Lozano remarked.
The marching show band has a significant tradition both in the Bay Area and around the world. About 220 kids, ranging from freshmen to seniors, make up the band, and they travel all over the world. They had recently returned from a tour in Southern California, where they had played at Universal Studios and Disneyland.
Additionally, they took first place in the San Francisco Fleet Week Band Challenge this year in the Bay Area.
“Very fortunate to have performances yearly basis now with the Warriors Organization, they’ve been in music videos and traveled abroad, overseas to Rome, Spain,” added Lozano.
In addition to gathering funds to upgrade their band trailer, the staff is now even more motivated to promptly replace what has been lost in the wake of this catastrophe.
“We do have safety precautions in place, but you never know what can happen; you should always do your best. Everything has locks, and we secure everything. We’re taking care of everything on our end, and it’s behind gates,” Martinez stated.
In order to continue putting the highest safety of the staff and children first, she noted, they would be investigating additional security measures.
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