Thieves have set back a local food truck owner after stealing her catalytic converter one week before she was set to be a vendor at BLINK .
Nicole Mercer, owner of A Lil’ Taste of Soul food truck , has been in business for four years. Just as she was preparing for one of the busiest weeks in Cincinnati, she’s now forced to stop operating.
“(My husband) looked underneath the truck and he’s like someone cut the catalytic converter off the truck,” she told WCPO Tuesday.
Mercer said her husband discovered last week thieves took off with the truck’s catalytic converter. In screen grabs shared with WCPO from surveillance video, you can see the suspects approaching the shared kitchen space, scoping out the area and then approaching Mercer’s truck.
Provided “You hurt our family — like this is our livelihood,” Mercer said. “You have hurt us going into the winter months. Now we got a major setback having to repair a truck, missing out on possibly tens of thousands of dollars for BLINK because, you know, there is an estimated 2 million people that’s supposed to be here during these four days.”