NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A stolen food truck out of Nashville led investigators in Clarksville to the discovery of other stolen vehicles.
The owner of "Sugaboats" said her mobile business was stolen Thursday or Friday last week.
There is a tracker hidden on Shilon Calbert's food trailer. When it disappeared from its parking spot on a lot off of Rosa L. Parks Blvd., Calbert had to know where it went.
"That's all I had left of my restaurant — my food truck — and now I don't have it," Calbert said.
The food truck, which Calbert built when she scaled back her food business at the start of the pandemic, pinged miles away in Clarksville.
According to the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office, their deputies recovered three vehicles at the address on Chapel Hill Road. Investigators said two food trucks, including Sugaboats, and a mobile home were nestled behind the property and all were being dismantled.
"[The property owners] wouldn't allow us on their property, so we actually had to stand across the street on someone else's property and film their property, and I told them, 'I'm going to expose y'all,'" she said.
Calbert saw what the alleged thieves had already done to her truck.
"Only time I got to go on the property was with the detective to actually walk on there and point out all my stuff they had took out. The equipment was like sitting on the outside... two deep fryers, a flat top, the whole fire suppression system, the hood vents. It had two open windows. They had taken a whole window out," she said.
Investigators towed her vehicle and the two others from the property. All the owners could have their property back soon. Calbert is not sure how much she can salvage.
NewsChannel 5 learned from the owner of Charcoal Cowboys BBQ in Nolensville that they own the second stolen trailer. It went missing on May 5.
The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office said it has not made any arrests yet.
