HOUSTON - A group of young athletes from Illinois traveled to Houston to compete in the AAU Junior Olympics, bringing home two national championships and several medals — only to have their coach’s truck and more than $50,000 worth of equipment stolen before they could return home.

Major truck theft in Humble

The theft occurred over the weekend outside a hotel on the 4800 block of Canyon Lakes Trace, just off Beltway 8 in Humble. Surveillance footage shows two men jumping a fence, disabling the alarm, and stealing a 2021 Chevrolet Silverado High Country belonging to the wife of coach Mike Cockerham, founder of the Flying Dragons Pole Vault Club.

"They broke into the computer of the truck, figured out the key fob code, unlocked it, started it, and were gone — all in three minutes," Coc

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