SAN DIEGO (KGTV) – Amid rising electrical energy payments and photo voltaic demand, a video captured a person eradicating photo voltaic panels from the facet of a Rolando residence.
Two giant photo voltaic panels disappeared from the facet of Dilenna Coon’s residence on Faculty Avenue. Coon and her husband seen it whereas they had been driving from their home.
“I checked out him, and he regarded like he needed to scream,” Coon mentioned.
Surveillance video exhibits how they disappeared, simply earlier than 8 a.m. Saturday, a white van drove by, parked, and a person bought out and checked the world. He drove and after some time, he got here again.
He walked across the facet of the home, earlier than rising with a big photo voltaic panel, which he maneuvered into the again of the van, one of many two panels he recorded being eliminated. The lacking photo voltaic panels measured about 6 and a half ft tall by 3 and a half ft large.
“Simply that feeling of trespass that somebody got here onto our property and took one thing,” Coon mentioned.
Coon’s husband, who owns the photo voltaic firm, Caliber Vitality Options, mentioned the panels, which value about $500, had been slated for an upcoming residential undertaking.
“I feel it is a low, low factor to do, to remove folks’s livelihood. My husband’s enterprise supplies for our household,” mentioned Coon.
About six months later, Coon mentioned they found a special man, in a special automotive exterior their residence. Her husband managed to scare her off, however not earlier than he drove off with three panels.
This isn’t the primary time now we have seen such theft. In 2017, ABC 10News reported on thieves destroying panels on an Alpine array.
It stays a uncommon crime, however with electrical energy payments rising, together with the demand for photo voltaic, will panels turn out to be a extra fascinating goal for thieves?
“He actually is aware of what he is doing. I do not assume he’ll cease,” Coon mentioned.
A San Diego Police spokesperson mentioned they haven’t heard of some other comparable instances. Anybody with info on the case can name San Diego Police at 619-531-2000.
