SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (KABC) — A number of stolen safes and ATM machines had been found on a steep hill within the Santa Susana Cross, and fortunately, the objects fell into the fingers of excellent Samaritans.
“I used to be strolling down proper over right here off of Santa Susana Cross close to Rocky Peak, and seemed down the hill and see an entire bunch of safes. It was loopy,” stated David Weisberg.
Weisberg and his girlfriend Nancy Nicoloro had been within the space selecting up trash with the nonprofit group Volunteers Cleansing Communities.
Once they got here throughout the pile of safes and ATMs, they determined to analyze.
“I hiked down there, and there was like seven of them, and there was quite a lot of paper work and private objects all sprawled round,” stated Weisberg. “It is like … actually hacksawed open, most of them, they usually seemed related.”
The couple started sifting by way of the paperwork and had been in a position to collect contact info for one of many victims of a stolen protected.
“We had been in a position to join with them and provides them again their stuff, they usually had been very pleased about that,” stated Weisberg. “The objects that we discovered within the protected, or across the protected, had been passports, there have been start certificates, a marriage album of the sufferer’s daughter, there was a full dwelling belief.”
Nicoloro indicated the sufferer had saved cash within the protected.
“[He] stated, ‘Oh, that $5,000 might be gone.”
Nicoloro even determined to search for her personal protected, which was additionally stolen.
“I seemed and thought, ‘My protected needs to be on the market someplace,’ so once we discovered their protected, I felt actually captivated with it as a result of I believed, ‘Wow.’ It was like closure for me nearly that they’d the identical paperwork of their protected that I had in mine personal protected.”
The couple stated they do not imagine the thieves had been engaged in identification theft as a result of the a number of stolen safes had been crammed with private info however no cash.
The Los Angeles Police Division is investigating.
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