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Grand theft wedding: Up to 5K stolen from couple

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STUART-- It was the worst ending to an otherwise memorable wedding night.

"I couldn't sleep during my wedding night. I was like why?," asked Sheila Hengstenberg.

She and newly-married husband Rick had just wrapped up their wedding reception Saturday night at the Knights Of Columbus facility in Stuart .

They parked their vehicle outside and had loaded it with all their gifts, when Rick realized a bag filled with about $5,000 in checks and gift cards was gone.

"I started walking the parking lot and had a horrible feeling. I saw two cards with her name on it and they were ripped open," he said.

After Martin County Sheriff's deputies arrived, he walked further down the parking lot to a dumpster where he found the bag that they had last seen on the front seat. It was empty.

"It's really not due to the money. I mean, it would have helped but I just feel violated. Why would someone to do that to someone else?," asked Sheila.

They think a perfect stranger walking by the building seized the perfect opportunity as the vehicle was left unattended at times.

"I don't want to remember my wedding night with something bad that I didn't deserve," she said.

"I know times are tough right now for everybody, but to do that to somebody on their wedding, it's despicable, it's heartless," added Rick.

 


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