Scrappers Suspected Of Stealing Teen’s Wheelchair

Someone stole Marlon Tapang’s wheelchair from outside his Gurnee home. (CBS)
 

GURNEE (CBS) — Police believe scrappers, people who cruise areas when it is garbage day and pick up metal, may have been the ones who stole a teen’s wheelchair.
Marlon Tapang’s specialized motorized wheelchair was taken just before the bus arrived to take him to Warren Township High School last Friday, which was garbage day in his Hasting Lane neighborhood.
His mother, Jarka, said the chair cost $7,681.