A Georgia potter didn’t have an opportunity to sell his wares during Cary’s Lazy Daze Arts Festival this past weekend because thieves made off with his trailer full of pottery before he even got set up. | Facebook
A Georgia potter didn’t have an opportunity to sell his wares during Cary’s Lazy Daze Arts Festival this past weekend because thieves made off with his trailer full of pottery before he even got set up. | Facebook
A Georgia potter didn’t have an opportunity to sell his wares during Cary’s Lazy Daze Arts Festival this past weekend because thieves made off with his trailer full of pottery before he even got set up.
This week, though, things took a turn for the better as Raleigh police found his trailer and returned it, with most of the products intact.
“It was unbelievable that something so big and so heavy and so full of my art, that was there just hours before was gone,” Robin Rodgers, owner of the stolen goods said in a WNCN report, reflecting back on how he felt after waking up Friday to find the trailer missing.
Then he added, after getting his property back Tuesday, “The story has a happier ending.”
Rodgers had packed a U-Haul with several crates filled with about 60 different pieces of work and display pieces valued at $10,000 to try to sell at the festival. He had traveled six hours from Smyrna, Georgia, to showcase his pottery.
Cary Police investigated the incident, and a surveillance video showed a white Ford F-150 in the area before the trailer was stolen.
“This took a couple of people or more and I’d dare say that they had to use a jack to jack it up,” Rodgers said, guessing at the trouble it took to make off with the trailer.
“We’re just crushed that the day before our show, everything that we’ve been working for has been taken away,” Rodgers added.
While he missed out on the chance to sell his products in Cary, he’ll have other chances now that he has most of it back.
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