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 digicam 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 Occasions, 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 Occasions, she’s been placing up the Jack Skellington animatronic for Halloween and retains it up through 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 quite a lot of [filmmaker] Tim Burton merch,” Rodriguez mentioned. “This was my largest buy by far.”
The ornament is listed on the market on Dwelling Depot’s web site for $500.
In her years dwelling 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 they usually don’t know who they’re stealing from, hard-working individuals with again tales,” mentioned Michelle Saiza-Paz, Rodriquez’s good friend who has been serving to unfold the phrase concerning 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; nevertheless, the investigation is presently closed, he mentioned.
“The neighborhood service officer that dealt with [the case] did inform the sufferer that if anything popped up or in the event that they obtained one other video, we’d be completely happy to take a look at it,” Monanez mentioned.
Montanez mentioned he couldn’t converse as to if this kind of theft was a typical prevalence inside the metropolis.
He inspired residents to report thefts or different kinds 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.
