STANWOOD, Wash. — A North Sound equestrian center was the victim of a rather odd burglary.
In the more than half a decade Cheyanne MacDonald worked at the Sunset Equestrian Center in Stanwood there's never been a theft.
"It's a really nice place,” she told us.
The center has survived four generations of ownership without a theft. So imagine Cheyanne's surprise when one thief did something so brazen overnight Sunday. A man broke into and swiped Cheyanne's 1994 white Ford truck with her wallet and purse inside and then managed to open up a number of locked tack boxes inside the nearby stable.
"He broke into all of these, he got all the combination locks somehow,” Cheyanne told us, showing us the opened trunks.
The whole crime played out on surveillance camera. What was bizarre is that when the man stole the truck he left his own vehicle parked in its place for two hours. In fact during that time an employee arrived and just didn't recognize that vehicle as being out of place.
“He stole the truck, took the truck away at 3:30 am, came back around 5:30,” said Cheyanne. “His friend, some guy or a girl, dropped him off then he came and picked up his car and then they both just drove away."
The plates on the getaway car are too blurry to make out, and like the employee at work at the time of the crime, no one here recognizes it but it didn't seem unusual just parked.
"There are a lot of people who come in and out of here we don't necessarily know as well,” one of the riders grooming her horses explained.
Cheyanne hopes someone knows him -- even a little.
“Hopefully someone will recognize him and turn him in or find the truck,” she concluded.