Nashville musician’s manager reveals details of reunion with stolen equipment

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – A Nashville musician suggests he’s been reunited with far more than $250,000 of his gear stolen earlier this thirty day period.

Information 2 spoke with Place singer Adam Doleac’s supervisor, Eric Garcia. Garcia says in a year of devastation for so a lot of in the enjoyment company, this crime strike them difficult.

Doleac’s trailer was stolen on September 7 in East Nashville. The crime was captured on digicam. Garcia states it all commenced when he obtained a suggestion about the vehicle captured on online video.

“The morning Adam obtained the video from his position we noticed it was a white Escalade. It did not have plates on it but we had listened to an additional artist experienced his trailer stolen from Soundcheck, white Escalade and we had the plates on that,” Garcia defined.

Garcia says the car or truck was registered to anyone in Kentucky. He then discovered the motor vehicle was stated for sale by a gentleman in an auto-team marketplace in April. Garcia says they hired a non-public investigator to contact the gentleman to discover out to whom he marketed the car.

“He bought it to a guy who matches the description in the video for $2,600 in a Walmart parking good deal who reported he was from Nashville. So the male expressing he was from Nashville assisted us know all right, he’s most likely nonetheless in Nashville,” Garcia said.

Garcia then been given a idea from a mate who informed him he saw a white Escalade that matched the description go into the Forest Hills Baptist Church parking great deal in Bellevue and trade the trailer off to a black SUV. The good friend then instructed Garcia he attempted to follow it but could not get shut more than enough.

Garcia then referred to as the church to ask to see their surveillance footage.

“Sure adequate they despatched over footage from the trailers getting switched. It was a 2002 white escalade switching off to what appeared like a GMC Yukon, all black. So now we know this is like an procedure. They have a plan, they just take them to a specified spot and switch them off. He then mentioned they headed South towards Franklin,” Garcia defined.

From there, Garcia started exploring Fb marketplace for trailers.

“I did not find our trailer, but I did arrive throughout the profile that had various profiles with the same identify and no profile image and no facts on Fb. It was seriously fishy. When you appeared at his commerce at what he was advertising, it was like 4 or 5 trailers,” mentioned Garcia.

Garcia claimed it didn’t sit suitable with him that this one particular man or woman was selling so many trailers on the internet. He determined to adhere to his instincts and requested the private investigator he’d employed to discover out extra information about this man or woman. The investigator offered Garcia a couple of details, stating that the unique was 19-many years-previous with a warrant out for his arrest for forgery.

Garcia prepared a assembly with the specific and stated he was interested in acquiring a trailer. 10 minutes before the assembly, the particular person adjusted the assembly place. Garcia then referred to as Franklin law enforcement to notify them of the circumstance.

“I’m on his avenue and I see a blacked-out Yukon with a hitch on the back again and I am subsequent it. I’m at a stoplight and I received a picture of the license plate and then he just usually takes off,” said Garcia.

Garcia then referred to as law enforcement all over again and ran the plates on the Yukon. This led them to recognize the man or woman the motor vehicle was registered to. Garcia claims they then enlisted two adult males with Stein Defense, Chris Reed & Adam Schlein, a organization known for dealing with musician safety.

They devised a prepare to fulfill up with the seller yet again. The individual told Reed & Schlein to fulfill him at a Tractor Source but altered that site 10 minutes prior to the meeting time. They then went to the recently chosen site and satisfied the individual to inquire about Doleac’s stolen trailer and equipment.

“He ended up cooperating and foremost us to it. I believe when Chris explained what was in the trailer the kid mentioned he had two trailers with that type of things in it. It ended up remaining ours which we recovered and it ended up getting Hudson Moore’s whose stuff was stolen. They offered his trailer but we acquired all of his equipment back, and that we took again to Soundcheck,” discussed Garcia.

Garcia stated the equipment was located on a farm in Franklin.

“This relatives has 1,000 acres of farm out in Franklin. It was in the middle of some again highway we would not have discovered it. He’s bought most likely 25-30 trailers out there and you just wouldn’t know,” stated Garcia.

Garcia states this was an extremely lousy time for anything like this to materialize for Doleac.

“We almost cancelled his hometown Hattiesburg show when he performed ahead of the football game. At 8 p.m. past Friday we named and reported we are likely to do this. We felt like if there was any display he would do, that was the show he was heading to get the most assistance at. We pulled it off with rented equipment,” reported Garcia.

“When I bought the contact from Chris and he requested if we ended up prepared to get our things back again, it was like we won the Tremendous bowl. It practically was like Xmas Day. We all jumped on a Facetime,” stated Garcia.

“It was terrible. That is your income… that is your livelihood and all of ours. Band, crew, mine and Adam’s. To get that taken absent, we were being just like asking yourself what else is up coming,” stated Garcia.

Garcia told Information 2 law enforcement are out right now looking for far more trailers. Garcia claims he’s proud to be a element of this local community.

“Who appreciates how numerous we are likely to get well. This thing could have recovered 20 people’s stolen trailers. I am glad we had been a element of that, it’s big you know. I am enthusiastic to see what occurs at the conclude of this,” explained Garcia.