Theresa Crow Robert Lamar Farabee

A Las Vegas police sting operation netted two people suspected of stealing at least five moving trucks full of clothing, furniture and other items belonging to people moving to Las Vegas.

Police arrested Robert Lamar Farabee, 30, and Theresa Crow, 36, on Saturday, after Farabee was caught stealing a decoy U-Haul moving truck at a Strip casino that authorities used as bait, police said.

On Tuesday night, police found Farabee's four storage lockers in North Las Vegas filled with stolen goods, said Lt. Robert Duvall of the Las Vegas police's auto theft unit.

Among the boxes of items recovered from the storage lockers were toys, family pictures and portraits and other irreplaceable personal items, he said.

"A lot of this stuff means nothing to you or I but everything to the person who lost it," Duvall said. Any big-ticket items such as wide-screen televisions probably had been sold, he said.

Duvall said police began using the decoy U-Haul truck on Thursday to crack down on the rash of moving-truck thefts in Las Vegas Valley. Since June 2006, Las Vegas police have received 15 reports of moving trucks being stolen, he said.

About 1:30 p.m. Saturday, officers placed the decoy U-Haul in the parking lot of a casino near the south end of the Strip, and within two hours officers watched as Farabee stole it, Duvall said.

Officers followed Farabee to another casino parking lot, where Farabee got out and checked the loot inside the back of the truck, Duvall said.

While Farabee was checking on the goods in the truck, police swooped in and arrested him without incident, Duvall said.

While police were at the scene, they noticed a woman sitting in a car near the U-Haul. The police checked the license plates of the car and, when they learned it was stolen, questioned the woman.

Police discovered the woman in the car, Crow, was an accomplice in the robberies, Duvall said.

After investigation, police discovered that Farabee had been renting the storage facilities, near Craig Road and Decatur Boulevard.

On Tuesday, they went to the storage facility and discovered the four lockers full of goods.

While the police were at the storage facility, they noticed a moving truck parked on the property. When asked, the manager told them that Farabee had driven the truck to the facility, Duvall said.

Police are cataloging and making an inventory of everything they recovered from the self-storage complex. They said they hope to see the goods returned to their owners.

Duvall said he was pleased that police arrested two people accused of multiple moving-truck robberies within the first week of using the decoy truck.

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