A 13-foot-tall Jack Skellington Halloween ornament was stolen from the entrance yard of a Corona house, and its proprietor — an enormous fan of the “Nightmare Earlier than Christmas” character — is hoping for its return.
Safety digital camera footage from a neighbor exhibits, on Sunday at 5 a.m., an individual wearing a grey hoodie and pants strolling briskly down an alley whereas carrying the elongated 48-pound Halloween ornament horizontally, its bony fingers stretching towards the sky.
The video footage, reviewed by The Instances, exhibits the person head towards a black four-door automobile and place the ornament on prime of it.
Avelina Rodriguez has lived in her Corona house on Grand Avenue for the final 5 years.
For 3 of these years, she advised The Instances, she’s been placing up the Jack Skellington animatronic for Halloween and retains it up in the course of the Christmas season adorned with a Santa outfit that her mother-in-law custom-made for it.
“I’m an enormous Jack Skellington fan, and I accumulate numerous [filmmaker] Tim Burton merch,” Rodriguez mentioned. “This was my largest buy by far.”
The ornament is listed on the market on Residence Depot’s web site for $500.
In her years residing within the Corona space, she mentioned she’d by no means heard of this type of theft and was devastated somebody took her ornament.
“It’s unhappy when individuals steal from others and so they don’t know who they’re stealing from, hard-working individuals with again tales,” mentioned Michelle Saiza-Paz, Rodriquez’s buddy who has been serving to unfold the phrase in regards to the incident.
The Corona Police Division is conscious of the incident, mentioned Robert Montanez, public info officer for the division.
A report of the theft was taken by a neighborhood service officer; nonetheless, the investigation is at present closed, he mentioned.
“The neighborhood service officer that dealt with [the case] did inform the sufferer that if the rest popped up or in the event that they obtained one other video, we’d be completely satisfied to have a look at it,” Monanez mentioned.
Montanez mentioned he couldn’t converse as to whether any such theft was a typical incidence throughout the metropolis.
He inspired residents to report thefts or different sorts of crimes to the Police Division to help in figuring out traits or presumably repeat offenders.
Rodriguez mentioned she hoped Jack could be returned to her or discovered.
“Let’s get Jack again!” Saiza-Paz mentioned.
