The basic automotive was about for use to have fun an area Marine’s one hundredth birthday
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas Metropolis household is searching for their uncommon 1954 Bentley they are saying was stolen from their limousine enterprise early Saturday morning.
“It’s a automobile that we rely on each week and each weekend for wedding ceremony {couples}, and we do anniversaries, birthdays,” Nader Aldewick of Pech Limousine stated.
However, with the pandemic, Aldewick stated these occasions have been non-existent.
“March, April and Might, we have been at zero earnings principally,” Aldewick stated. “We didn’t do one journey. Proper now, as of this time, we’re again to about 50%.”
Surveillance video reveals a driver pulling the Bentley into the storage after getting used for a marriage anniversary Friday evening.
Seconds later, somebody sneaks into the storage, and skulks over to a SUV to cover.
Individuals, just like the Bentley driver, are nonetheless shifting across the storage, so Aldewick stated the thief waited within the SUV for 3 hours earlier than making his transfer in a single day.
“So far as I can inform from the cameras, [he was] simply sitting contained in the Jeep,” Aldewick stated.
Later, clearly making an attempt to keep away from being seen, the particular person makes their technique to the storage door and opens it. Then, they get within the Bentley and again it proper out of the storage.
“[It is] simply salt to the wound that we’re already struggling with 2020,” Aldewick stated.
Aldewick believes somebody in a white Ford Fusion could have dropped off the thief.
In March, Aldewick stated a particular veteran hoped to make use of the Bentley for his one hundredth birthday. That veteran was Marine Max DeWeese, who FOX4 launched to viewers final 12 months after he battled and beat COVID-19.
“We donated the automotive to have fun his birthday,” Aldewick stated. “He wished to journey with it.”
Aldewick stated between the preliminary buy and upgrades, he invested closed to $70,000 into the Bentley. He stated they’ll go for a number of hundred thousand {dollars} in pristine situation.
“It’s a really important automobile to our enterprise,” Aldewick stated. “We had a tough 2020 as you think about, as most of the small companies in Kansas Metropolis and across the nation, and that is only a actual unhealthy blow.”
