A Fort Lupton man truck and horse trailer stolen

BY BELEN WARD BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Brit Ellerman stopped in Fort Lupton’s First Street Safeway with his girlfriend March 5 just to grab some things for lunch. ey were in the store for about eight minutes, he said.

“When we walked out, there was an odd car with a guy sitting in it; as we got closer to my truck he sped o ,” Ellerman said.

He didn’t think much of it at the time, but it would end up costing him thousands of dollars – despite taking his personal security seriously, with cameras around his house and trackers in his trucks.

“I have an axe to grind because it’s a huge problem in Colorado,” Ellerman said. “It bothers me that for other people who own a car worth $4,000 or less there is almost no incentive for the police to nd it because they gure insurance will cover it. We don’t have support from the government they let those people go and then just charge them with a misdemeanor.”

Ellerman and his girlfriend didn’t notice anything amiss until they’d left the supermarket parking lot. She realized her makeup bag was missing, so they returned to the parking lot to check if the bag was accidentally fallen out.

More than makeup

It was while they were looking for it that they realized some things were shu ed out of place and others were just gone. For example, Ellerman said they keep a box of wipes in the truck’s console. e box had been pulled out on the seat, but neither of them remembered pulling it out.

“I opened the glove box and all