ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The owner of a popular food truck in Albuquerque is picking up the pieces after his truck was stolen Saturday night.
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Owner of Los Pookies, Luis Dominguez, said he’s thankful to Albuquerque police for recovering the truck on Sunday night, but this unsettling experience has him looking at how to make sure this never happens again. “It’s like, if you show up to work tomorrow morning and the building is just missing, it’s like, what do you do?” exclaimed Dominguez. “Just years of hard work just down the drain, you know, it’s insane.”
On Sunday morning, Los Pookies employees learned their food truck had been stolen in the middle of the night. “I got a phone call about 9:30. Hey, the food truck is not here. Figured out that the fence was busted, and from there, we figured out that they had taken the truck,” explained Matthew Gutierrez, General Manager of Los Pookies…