A gripping tale with a surprisingly happy ending.
Thieves took Adrian Salgado's pickup truck and gardening equipment, but strangers helped him get them back. Then the 65-year-old gardener got swept up in a drama, like the ones he sees in his old Mexican action movies — and his face was broadcast all over television:California Cops Pitch In To Buy Equipment for Burgled Gardener … After Gardener Was Robbed, Officers Pay for New Tools and Lawnmower … Santa Ana police officers chip in, buy equipment for gardener whose tools, truck were stolen.
Missing from it was all that hurt Salgado most. His photo of his mother, Agripina. His photo of his father, Antonio. His Mexican 500-peso note, so faded and wrinkled you could hardly make out the amount; the one he’d earned at his first job at age 13 laboring in a Mexican mine. They share a soft-peach stucco house with five bedrooms — Salgado and Maria, their five adult kids, their spouses and six grandchildren.
“We were all looking at each other feeling like this could have been our pops,” said Sgt. Michael Gonzalez. With a little more than $1,000, officers bought Salgado a new lawn mower, leaf blower, trimmer and rake.. Everyone thought he’d head home and get some rest, Sgt. Gonzalez said.That evening when Salgado came home, he figured the drama was over. Slowly, he told himself, he’d save up to replace all his original equipment, worth more than $3,000.
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