Caught on Camera: Homeowner desperate to get stolen trailer back

Reported by: Melissa Vega
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Updated: 1/20 8:14 am
SAN ANTONIO -- Jesse Tagel hopes his home surveillance video will help find the people who took his trailer from his front driveway.

Tagel who lives off the 200 block of Glamis St. on the Southeast side, says his trailer was stolen just after 1 pm Thursday afternoon.

"They already know what they wanted, they must of watched us leave, " said Tagel.

In the video you see a pickup truck pull into Tagel's driveway, moments later a man and a women get out of the vehicle.

"They came to the front door, trying to see if anyone was home, " added Tagel.

The two strangers hitched the trailer to a pick-up truck and drove away. "The stuff that we worked hard for, it's gone in a matter of seconds just like that, " said Tagel.

Tagel told News 4 WOAI he makes a living with the trailer by cleaning out foreclosed homes for banks.

Our Crime Tracker shows within the past two weeks there have been 5 other burglaries in Tagel's neighborhood.

Tagel says he just wants his trailer back, so he can get back to work.

Anyone with information in this case can call (210)207-SAPD.

If there is a crime issue in your neighborhood that you want us to check out, email us at crimetracker@woaitv.com.
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FLTXGirl - 1/23/2013 10:22 PM
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Thank you guys so much!!!! I hope that the police and detectives are able to catch these thieves, because it's not fair that we work hard fro what we have only to get what we worked hard for stolen in a matter of minutes.... Please keep a lookout for it, I know there are more WOAI viewers than there are law enforcers in San Antonio. Somebody has to know something about either these people or my trailer.

donoho - 1/21/2013 12:26 PM
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No, the story here is not the cost, or the inability to work. The story here is a pair of God cursed thieves, and if I still lived in that neighborhood, or if my father still did, they would not walk away from a theft in my driveway. To the POS thieves I say, you need to be sure that what you’re stealing is worth your life, because a lot of people in that neighborhood will be angry, and defend what they have.

RonMelancon - 1/19/2013 3:40 PM
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Wake up everybody 15 states have no registration for your token trailer Texas is so stupid they will help you to reregister a stoen trailer. All you have to do is call it homemad. Go to wew.dangeroustrailers.org. Then google " how to steal a trailer dangerous trailer.org

Phrilly - 1/19/2013 1:34 PM
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yum - Trailers can cost thousands of dollars depending what you get. That little trailer he had probably cost upwards of $800 or more. Besides, cost isn't the story here, the lack of ability to work is. Don't give the POS thieves any slack. If found I hope they go to jail for a very long time. These people have to learn that crime doesn't pay, I wish San Antonio would make that true but there are too many times they get "probation". They would have to steal again four or ten times before they are labeled serial thieves.

YumBrandz - 1/18/2013 10:07 PM
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Aren't those trailers relatively cheap? Couldn't you get one on eBay? Not saying it's the easy thing to do, but gotta do what you gotta do. Also, gotta figure out ways to lock up one's trailer. It's unbelievable, the things people steal.

Phrilly - 1/18/2013 9:07 PM
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I'm so sorry this happened to you. My husband had a trailer at Kelly (when it was still Kelly) and someone broke into his shop yard, hooked up the trailer, went down a couple of buildings, broke in and boosted computers and printers out of it and piled them on the stolen trailer and left through the gate! Never did find out who did it. Good luck Jesse.
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