HALF MOON BAY -- A thief busted into a church group van as it sat parked on a city street and made off with more than $10,000 in audio visual equipment, police said Monday.

Sometime between Wednesday night and Sunday afternoon someone broke into the van on the 1100 block of Main Street, said San Mateo County sheriff's Deputy Rebecca Rosenblatt.

The burglar or burglars carried away a laptop computer, two video mixers and a video camera the church had stored in the vehicle.

A church member discovered the break-in Sunday and called deputies, who found evidence the thief had also tried to steal the van.

A phone call to Iglesia del Mar on Cabrillo Highway North, which is about two miles north of the burglary scene, was not returned Monday.
