Tour Van Break-Ins Return to St. Louis After Brief Reprieve - Riverfront Times (blog)
In addition to playing drums in the Atlanta-based rock band Radio Birds, Dean serves as its unofficial mechanic, and on this particular morning he'd planned to look at the van in which he and his bandmates had been living for the last month. Except that when he stepped into the parking lot of the hotel where they had left the van the night before, it was nowhere to be seen. See also: Tour Van Break-Ins Have St. Louis in Music-Industry Crosshairs. So there was really nothing they were going to do," says Justin Keller, who sings in the band. "In this situation, the van was worth probably $5,000, so that's one thing, but we had $25,000 to $30,000 worth of stuff in the back. Soon after they landed, one of them received a call from St. Louis Police. They had found a 1997 Dodge 3500 Ram filled with amps and music gear in Florissant. The plan was to pick up the van, unload all the equipment into a trailer attached to their car, and drop the van off at a shop. "We made it about three blocks away from the tow lot before we realized that the van was undrivable," Keller says. Source: www.riverfronttimes.com
