A Long Beach antique dealer is still reeling from shock after a U-Haul truck packed with about 130 antique pieces from the 1920s and 1930s was stolen right in front of her home this week.
Khobe DeLuca, who had just presented precious items at the LA Pottery Show in Glendale last weekend, had parked the truck — locked and closed — in front of her home in the Wrigley neighborhood of Long Beach. She was planning to return them to her showroom in downtown Los Angeles.
“We saw the truck at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, and by 10:35, it had been completely stolen with literally everything on board, the entire inventory,” DeLuca said, adding the items were all originally created in the Los Angeles-region nearly 100 years ago.
Surveillance video from her neighbor’s security camera showed a mini van pulling up next to the truck,. Then within 90 seconds, a person got into the rental and took off…