A South Florida food truck owner is unable to work after she said her generator was stolen in West Little River.
The owner spoke with NBC6 on Wednesday and said she’s desperate for help, desperate to find answers, and makes her living with her food truck.
She and her employees are now stuck and feel helpless, and she also wants to know if her stolen generator is connected to a similar theft that happened not far from where it occurred.
“I need help, I need help,” Maria Sosa said. “I can’t work.”
Sosa said she can’t work because thieves targeted her food truck.
She is the owner of Sazon Dominicano.
Sosa parked her food truck at a Chevron gas station in Miami’s West Little River neighborhood for the last several months.
But last week, she said, when she came to open up, she noticed her generator was gone.
“Somebody take it,” she said.
That was her immediate thought.
“I cried because I have to work for putting money for my phone and to pay my bills,” she said.
Sosa shared screenshots from a nearby home surveillance camera, which appears to show two people at the back of her food truck, where she said she keeps the generator.
She said she later filed a report with the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office.
“I work very hard because I put my money for my house, now I can’t do nothing,” she said.
In October, NBC6 spoke with the owner of another food truck who said someone stole her generator.
Sosa’s food truck is less than a mile away.
She thinks the same people may have targeted her as well.
“I feel bad, very, very bad,” she said.
Someone bought the woman NBC6 spoke with in October a brand new generator after her story aired.
Sosa said the gas station doesn’t want to share any surveillance video.
NBC6 is trying to get video from the home nearby to possibly identify the people who were at the food truck that night.
NBC6 has reached out to the MDSO about this investigation.
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