U-Haul trailer stolen with $35K worth of Thornton family’s items inside

THORNTON, Colo. (KDVR) — A Thornton family is hoping to recover a U-Haul trailer after it was stolen from outside their home near East 104th Avenue and Steele Street early Saturday morning.

Ally, who wished to only use her first name, said she and her husband with in the process of moving with their young son. They had packed up everything in their U-Haul trailer and she and her child and flown out to Utah where they were going to meet her husband, who was going to be driving out.

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“He had been up since five o’clock in the morning. Had checked the U-Haul. Everything was good, was just getting a few last-minute things ready to go from our road trip out to Utah for the holidays,” Ally said.

He went inside, and when he came back out, the trailer was gone.

“I was staying with a friend for two days,” Ally said. “My friend’s husband came in the room at about 6:30 in the morning and was like, ‘Weston’s trying to get ahold of you. You need to call him.’ So I call him and yeah, my husband was just in tears.”

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