Navy household’s transferring van stolen in Federal Means throughout west coast trek

Moving day of the couple ruined by thieves

The couple was driving a U-Haul with all of their personal effects when someone stole the vehicle and everything in it.

KING COUNTY – A medic and professional soldier staggered when they woke up to find that their U-Haul full of precious moments to bring them to the west coast had been stolen.

Miles Prodsky and Mary McQuilkin began their journey in San Francisco and made their way to Anchorage. They stopped on the Federal Way along the way. A Toyota truck pulled on a trailer that sat behind a 20-foot U-Haul was jam-packed with 30 years of combined military and peace corps service travel around the world. The couple said everything was gone overnight.

“Every night we wake up in the middle of the night thinking about what’s gone,” Miles said.

“Everything we owned was in that moving and pickup truck,” said Mary.

They did what they could by filing a report with Federal Way law enforcement. Mary built a website describing her own nightmare and her story began to spread on social media. Then some good news came to light at the end of that week.

The King County Sheriff’s agents recovered the family’s Toyota near Auburn on Thursday night. The missing 20-foot rental car was found Friday afternoon, but its personal effects have yet to be recovered.

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