Truck gotten into, $8K taken from Austin household

AUSTIN, Texas – A 16-year-old is functioning to conserve cash to acquire a vehicle for this academic year after offenders swiped the cash he intended to utilize to acquire one. He thinks he was a target of jugging previously this month.

“You don’t ever think it’s going to happen to you,” Austin citizen Timothy Jones stated.

Jones’ child, 16-year-old Bradley Jones, functioned and conserved up adequate cash to acquire himself a vehicle. Not long after, a person collapsed right into it and completed the vehicle. About a week and a fifty percent earlier, the household mosted likely to a financial institution in North Austin to grab the cash they obtained from their insurance policy. They took out $8,000.

“I got the money from the teller, I put it in my front pocket,” Timothy Jones stated.

They strolled with each other out of the financial institution, got involved in their auto, and made a decision to pick up coffee down the road.

“I put the money in the glove box, locked the truck, and went inside to get a cup of coffee,” Timothy Jones stated.

About 5 mins later on, Jones stated he returned to his vehicle and an astounding view.

“They had smashed out my window, they opened the glove box, opened the console, and took the money. They weren’t interested in the $12,000 worth of Milwaukee tools I have in my backseat, they knew what they were looking for,” Timothy Jones stated.

Jones stated he thinks the offenders followed them from the financial institution.

“Do you wish you had never stopped to grab coffee?” FOX 7 Austin Crime Watch press reporter Meredith Aldis asked Timothy Jones.

“No, because I think that if we hadn’t stopped, they probably would have followed us and eventually gotten impatient, and I’m just really glad that we’re alive,” Timothy Jones reacted.

“We all work for our money and for somebody just to take it, you know what I mean, it just feels so wrong,” Bradley Jones stated.

Bradley stated this suggests he will not have a vehicle to drive to college this year.

“I have a bunch of emotions: angry, sad, mad, but it just happened. I mean, there’s no real emotion to put towards it, it’s just crazy,” Bradley Jones stated.

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Bradley stated he’s figured out to acquire an additional vehicle.

“I guess it will give me a little motivation to work, on the bright side, you know, trying to make my money back,” Bradley Jones stated.

An Austin cops investigative informed Jones they get around 50,000 situations a year in the criminal examination department and attempt to function the situations that have leads and the others need to be put on hold. Because this situation does not have video clip proof from the financial institution or the coffee bar, it has actually been put on hold.

“The branch manager told me they don’t have any cameras outside because they don’t own the building, and I’ve made repeated attempts to get in touch with the Wells Fargo security officer, to find out what they’re doing to try to protect customers from this type of thing of happening, and I haven’t gotten anywhere,” Timothy Jones stated. “I just don’t want this to happen to anyone else.”

Austin cops stated understand your environments, do not leave cash in your auto, transform your course after leaving the financial institution, and call 911 if you think you’re being complied with.