Jan 24, 2008 6:15 pm US/Eastern
Hundreds Of Shoes Stolen From Red Wing Store
GLEN BURNIE, Md. (WJZ) ―
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A mobile shoe store was stolen from Anne Arundel County and turned up empty in Baltimore County.
In just a matter of hours, thieves reportedly made off with more than 1,000 pairs of shoes.
Peggy Lee reports a mobile shoe store was stolen from Anne Arundel County and turned up empty in Baltimore County.
On Wednesday, the walls of a mobile shoe store were stocked with dozens of shoes. Now they sit stripped and bare.
Employees say the Red Wing Mobile Store was stolen just before 1 a.m. Thursday from their parking lot in Glen Burnie.
"The passenger window was smashed. They completely destroyed the inside of my truck. They took everything. They unloaded every piece of stock, every shoe. They even took the shelves," said one store employee.
The employee says she doesn't want to show her face out of fear for her safety.
She says they lost roughly $150,000 of merchandise, including more than 1,000 pairs of shoes and other products.
"There was socks, care products, foot beds, insoles. They even took the branick device which is the device that measures the foot. They removed it and the truck was completely cleaned out, even took the step stools," said the employee.
Baltimore County police say they found the truck in a parking lot along Annapolis Rd. in the Baltimore Highlands area.
The employees at Red Wing say someone had to have seen the truck during the hours it went missing.
"This is a 28-foot truck. It says Red Wing Works and Carthart on it. It's got steps on the back of it, a ladder. It is a unique truck," said the store employee.
This Red Wing employee says the truck isn't stocked with shoes all the time and wonders if this theft was planned for a while.
"It's a rolling unit that we use to sell our shoes. Sometimes it's stocked, sometimes it isn't. Someone knew that the truck was stocked," said the employee.
Anyone with information is asked to call either Baltimore County or Anne Arundel County Police.
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