Former Marine’s pick-up truck and custom-fit prosthetic leg were stolen

Former Marine’s $50K Prosthetic Leg, Truck Stolen From Theme Park Parking Lot
ABC News
By Connor Burton
Jun 21, 2013

Police in Santa Ana, Calif., announced yesterday that a former Marine’s pick-up truck and custom-fit prosthetic leg were stolen from the parking lot of Knott’s Berry Farm last month.

Juan Hernandez, 53, went to the amusement park with his family on May 26, a day intended to honor military personnel.

Instead of using his prosthetic leg, Hernandez opted to use a wheelchair, he says, leaving the leg in the back seat of his truck. When Hernandez returned, he discovered that his blue Chevrolet pick-up was gone. “They probably didn’t realize what was in the truck,” Hernandez told ABCNews.

Now police say they are looking not only for the person who stole the truck but for the man who caused Hernandez to lose his leg three years ago in a gang-related incident.

Hernandez told ABC News that the leg, valued at around $50,000, was given to him after his story appeared on “America’s Most Wanted” in 2012.

In 2010, Hernandez was almost killed after being repeatedly run over by a truck on Thanksgiving Daywhen he tried to intervene in a fight between local gang members who were tagging a wall near his house in Santa Ana and his son, who was trying to stop them.
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