CLEARWATER, Fla. - A St. Louis couple was in the process of moving to Riverview when their U-Haul, carrying all their belongings, disappeared from a Clearwater hotel parking lot.
Now they say it turned out U-Haul took it, believing it was abandoned, and dumped all their belongings that were inside.Stan Brown and his wife packed all of their possessions into a U-Haul truck and drove it down from St.
Louis to Tampa at the end of August. They couldn’t move into the new home until the first weekend of September.In the meantime, they stayed at their snowbird apartment and paid to park the truck in the parking lot at the Holiday Inn on Ulmerton Road in Clearwater.But when they went to retrieve it on Sept.
4, the truck was gone. It had everything they own inside, from clothes to furniture to irreplaceable family mementos. They reported to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office that the truck was stolen.PREVIOUS: Couple hopes to find U-Haul with all their belongings stolen outside Clearwater hotelOn Wednesday, U-Haul contacted the Browns — one day after FOX 13 reported their initial story.