{"id":5259,"date":"2015-01-20T08:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=5259"},"modified":"2015-01-21T15:38:51","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T22:38:51","slug":"boy-scouts-trailer-full-of-camping-gear-reported-stolen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2015\/01\/boy-scouts-trailer-full-of-camping-gear-reported-stolen\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy Scouts’ trailer, full of camping gear, reported stolen"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Scouts\"<\/a>A trailer full of camping gear belonging to a Billings Boy Scout troop was reported to have been stolen from a West End church parking lot.<\/p>\n

The theft was reported Monday by Scoutmaster Rick Lindholm, who said the trailer was stolen from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints parking lot at 2929 Belvedere Drive, just off Grand Avenue and 30th Street West.<\/p>\n

The trailer contained wall tents, propane heaters, gas lanterns, camp chairs, water coolers and a homemade camp stove, among other gear, all of it belonging to Scout Troop 373. An American flag and a Troop 373 flag were also stolen.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody was really disappointed that somebody would be so brazen to steal it out of our church parking lot,\u201d Lindholm said.<\/p>\n

Although he reported the theft to the Billings Police Department on Monday, Lindholm said the crime probably happened on Jan. 13, the last time anyone remembered seeing the trailer.<\/p>\n

They were going to move to the trailer to accommodate some snow plowing at the church parking lot, Lindholm said, but the trailer was not where it was normally parked. Nobody was alarmed at first, thinking perhaps somebody associated with the troop moved it off-site for some reason.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to make sure none of our people borrowed it,\u201d he said. \u201cWe wanted to make sure it wasn\u2019t stolen.\u201d By Monday, they were sure there had been a theft.<\/p>\n

Lindholm said the trailer was locked and it had a trailer hitch lock, which must have been smashed off in order to hook up the trailer and drive off with it. The Pacam single-axle cargo trailer is white, about 10 by 6 feet, and had been owned by the troop since 2008. It had no side door and its license number is TRP 373 or T 373.<\/p>\n

\"CapreAir_Variable\"<\/a><\/div><\/div>Lindholm said the camping gear was accumulated over the years, bought with the proceeds of fundraisers like car washes and popcorn sales.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wouldn\u2019t even be able to estimate the value of it,\u201d he said. \u201cIf I was to ballpark it, maybe $6,000 or $7,000 worth of stuff, not including the trailer.”<\/p>\n

He said the person he talked to at the Police Department\u2019s Crime Prevention Center told him that in all likelihood they would get the trailer back eventually, but not the camping gear. He also posted notices of the theft on several Billings-area Facebook pages that deal with used merchandise.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we could get some help from people in the community just to be on the lookout for it,\u201d Lindholm said, that would help. In particular, he said, people should watch for someone trying to unload a large wall tent.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s going to be the ticket to getting that stuff back is the wall tents,\u201d he said. \u201cYou don\u2019t see big wall tents like that too often.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a complete list of the trailer\u2019s contents, provided by Lindholm:<\/p>\n

1 large Montana Canvas wall tent, 10-by-20 feet
\n1 medium Montana Canvas wall tent, roughly 8-by-15 feet
\n4 Cabella’s Alaskan Guide four-person tents with boxes
\n10 green camping chairs
\n3 Coleman gas lanterns
\n4 propane cylinders, each labeled \u201c373\u201d
\n3 large gas camping stoves
\n2 Buddy propane heaters
\n1 Coleman popup canopy
\n1 large homemade camp stove with stove pipes
\nLots of tarps
\nWater coolers
\nHand saw
\nAxe
\nFire barrel
\nFlags (American and Troop 373)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A trailer full of camping gear belonging to a Billings Boy Scout troop was reported to have been stolen from a West End church parking lot. The theft was reported Monday by Scoutmaster Rick Lindholm, who said the trailer was stolen from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints parking lot at 2929 Belvedere […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[1262,1965,1969,1966,1968,1967],"class_list":["post-5259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-billings","category-news","tag-billings-police-department","tag-boy-scouts","tag-crime-prevention-center","tag-lds-church","tag-montana-canvas","tag-rick-lindholm","prominence-category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}