Video: Apparent Halloween Thief Trots Away With 13-foot-tall Jack Skellington - Beritaja

A 13-foot-tall Jack Skellington Halloween decoration was stolen from the beforehand gait of a Corona home, and its proprietor — a immense instrumentality of the “Nightmare Before Christmas” characteristic — is hoping for its return.

Security camera footage from a neighbour shows, connected Sunday astatine 5 a.m., a personification dressed successful a grey hoodie and pants stepping briskly down an alley while carrying the elongated 48-pound Halloween decoration horizontally, its bony fingers stretching toward the sky.

The video footage, reviewed by The Times, shows the man caput toward a achromatic four-door conveyance and spot the decoration connected apical of it.

Avelina Rodriguez has lived successful her Corona location connected Grand Avenue for the past 5 years.

For 3 of those years, she told The Times, she’s been putting up the Jack Skellington animatronic for Halloween and keeps it up during the Christmas play adorned pinch a Santa outfit that her mother-in-law custom-made for it.

“I’m a immense Jack Skellington fan, and I cod a batch of [filmmaker] Tim Burton merch,” Rodriguez said. “This was my biggest acquisition by far.”

The decoration is listed for waste connected Home Depot’s website for $500.

In her years surviving successful the Corona area, she said she’d ne'er heard of this benignant of theft and was devastated personification took her decoration.

“It’s sad erstwhile group bargain from others and they don’t cognize who they are stealing from, hard-working group pinch backmost stories,” said Michelle Saiza-Paz, Rodriquez’s friend who has been helping dispersed the connection about the incident.

The Corona Police Department is alert of the incident, said Robert Montanez, nationalist accusation serviceman for the department.

A study of the theft was taken by a organization work officer; however, the investigation is presently closed, he said.

“The organization work serviceman that handled [the case] did show the unfortunate that if thing other popped up aliases if they obtained different video, we’d beryllium happy to look astatine it,” Monanez said.

Montanez said he couldn’t speak to whether this type of theft was a communal occurrence wrong the city.

He encouraged residents to study thefts aliases different types of crimes to the Police Department to assistance successful identifying trends aliases perchance repetition offenders.

Rodriguez said she hoped Jack would beryllium returned to her aliases found.

“Let’s get Jack back!” Saiza-Paz said.