Surveillance captures theft of E's Blufox Eatery meals truck
MILWAUKEE – Surveillance video captured somebody stealing a Milwaukee couple's meals truck shortly after midnight Friday, however the group helped them get well it.
E's Blufox Eatery is Iesha Coleman's delight and pleasure. She runs the meals stand along with her fiance close to 38th and Villard on the town's north facet.
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“He's like a child to me,” she stated. “We've been feeding the homeless, the youngsters within the neighborhood who’re hungry.”
Coleman stated enterprise actually took off over the summer season. But it surely's exhausting to cook dinner with no kitchen, and that was his actuality Friday afternoon when he pulled into the parking zone and his truck was gone.
“I actually couldn't consider it,” he stated. “I actually felt violated, as a result of why would somebody really feel so comfy coming into another person's enterprise and taking one thing away from them?”
The couple reached out to household and buddies, reminiscent of group activist Javod Petty, who posted on social media to unfold the phrase. It labored.
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“We bought it again about 30 minutes to an hour after I posted,” Petty stated.
The meals truck was discovered subsequent to an deserted home about 10 minutes from the place it was stolen. So as to add insult to harm, the truck was discovered with a $33 parking ticket taped to the facet and the inside was ransacked.
“We don't have energy or something proper now as a result of we don't have the generator,” Coleman stated. “They took away the fryer, the fryer, mainly all the pieces we had, all of our provides and stock.”
Now, Coleman stated she's grateful to have it again, even when it means there's extra work to do.
“It simply motivates me to maintain going and work tougher at my enterprise,” he stated.
FOX6 Information reached out to the Milwaukee Police Division on Saturday for details about the preliminary theft, however didn’t obtain a response by deadline for this story. Within the meantime, Coleman stated he’ll need assistance to get the truck operating once more.