Last Updated on January 16, 2023 by CCAR Staff
SAN DIMAS >> A local Formula Drift driver is asking the public’s help to recover a two-car trailer that was stolen from his shop in San Dimas on Sunday.
Justin Pawlak said the approximately $6,000 trailer was taken sometime after 3 p.m. Sunday. He discovered the theft Monday morning.
“It’s the trailer we use to take our cars to local track events,” he said. “I definitely don’t have means to replace it right now.”
Pawlak said he used a forklift to move the trailer to a hard-to-access location and lock it up, “but there’s skidmarks where a truck or something yanked it out to break off the lock.”
The trailer was not insured, however, and Pawlak said he could not find paperwork to file a police report on the theft. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Lt. Elisabeth Sachs confirmed that deputies responded to a call for service Monday morning but that no report was filed.
Pawlak took to social media Monday to spread the word about the stolen trailer, and a public Facebook post had been shared more than 450 times.
The trailer had a weathered Arizona license plate, T95219, and custom-built ramps attached to the side of the trailer. This is not the first time Pawlak has been a victim of trailer thieves, he said.
“I don’t know what I have to do to secure my stuff, short of sleeping at my shop,” he said. “My only hope is that somebody recognizes it and tips me off.”
Anyone with information about the trailer was asked to email Pawlak at hotlineperformance@gmail.com.
