Trailer packed with equipment stolen from museum

WASILLA — Organizers of a sizable yearly 4x4 event are hoping to recover $20,000 worth of equipment thieves made off with Monday night.

The annual Alaska 4x4 Meet and Greet is held at the Museum of Alaska Transportation and Industry on Father’s Day. Alyssia Jones, one of the organizers, said 700 people came out last year. Organizers store a trailer at the museum packed with everything from event T-shirts to a commercial barbecue grill to a bouncy house.

Well, they stored the trailer there until Monday night.

“Last night the museum was broken into. They drove through the gate and stole the meet-and-greet trailer,” Jones said Tuesday. “They just specifically went in after the trailer.”

On a gofundme.com page set up to try and raise money to replace the trailer and supplies, Jones writes that the thieves broke a lock on the tongue of the trailer and hauled it away. She describes it as a white 14-foot enclosed trailer with a fold-down ramp in the back and a side door. It has a license plate bearing number 3111RX and a red patch job on the front corner 18 inches up.

“Please post any information you may have, or contact Wasilla Police Department on Case Number 15-36 to help us catch these guys,” Jones writes on the gofundme page.