SHELBY, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) -- A North Carolina nonprofit was dealt a devastating blow this week.

Thieves stole nearly $1,500 worth of toys from Rescue Mountain NC that were slated to go to underserved children this Christmas.

"They took the entire pallet," said Jennifer Fredell-Saucier, Rescue Mountain's founder and CEO. "The entire pallet was gone.”

The donated toys were sitting out front of the nonprofit's warehouse in Shelby, ready to be moved inside.

"I just lost it [when they were taken]," Fredell-Saucier said. "I called my husband. I was so upset. I was crying because those are not our toys. Those are children's toys."

Fredell-Saucier started Rescue Mountain last year shortly after Hurricane Helene pummeled the state.

"My husband's a state trooper," she said. "He was workin

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