Part Of Stolen Production Truck Has Been Found
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MIAMI LAKES (CBSMiami) – Miami-Dade Police said part of an NFL Network production truck, reported stolen, has been found.
The truck was meant to be used for the Rich Eisen Show.
Police said Wednesday evening the trailer portion was recovered in Northeast Miami-Dade but the truck portion of the vehicle remains missing.
They said the trailer portion appeared to still be sealed with all of its original contents.
Eisen is in South Florida for the Thursday Night Football game between the Miami Dolphins and the Buffalo Bills.
He came with the truck worth an estimated $5 million to use for his game-day broadcasts.
According to authorities, sometime between the hours of 10 p.m. on Tuesday and 6 a.m. on Wednesday the truck was stolen from the parking lot of the Marriott Miami Lakes hotel in Miami Lakes.
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The truck, which is called Pacific, is comprised of a 48-foot trailer that is attached to a big rig truck, or tractor.
The trailer is outfitted to function as a television production studio when it is parked on location at sports venues across the country. It is operated by the company Sweetwater, a division of NEP.
"A driver of the mobile unit had checked on the unit around 10 p.m. last evening," said Mike Werteen, co-president of the U.S. Mobile Units Group. "Then at some point between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. the tractor and the 48-foot trailer were stolen from the parking lot of the hotel that he was staying at."
Werteen told CBS4's Peter D'Oench that the unit is highly technical and said that whoever took it may not have realized how sophisticated it is.
The plan was for Pacific to be put to use on DirecTV's broadcast of the Rich Eisen Show, which was set to broadcast on location in Miami before the Thursday Night Football game between the Dolphins and Bills.
The production trailer has GPS tracking and was sending pings through Wednesday morning. The last area of pinging was around 52nd street to 57th street in Miami, and then it went dead.
Miami-Dade police scoured South Florida for this production truck, which has an Indiana tag.
The Rich Eisen Show said they planned on using an alternate production trailer for his broadcast in case they did not find the other truck.
Watch Miami take on the Buffalo Bills this Thursday at 8 p.m. on CBS4, your official Dolphins station!
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