Overview
- Ashland High School’s locked equipment trailer was broken into at an International Drive hotel on Sunday, leaving nearly 30 students without instruments such as clarinets, trumpets, trombones, and saxophones.
- Band staff arranged month‑long rentals from Orlando music stores and secured a last‑minute saxophone from Ohio’s Anna High School so the group could march at Magic Kingdom on Monday.
- The Ashland High School Band Boosters launched a GoFundMe to cover emergency rental fees and families’ insurance deductibles as they work to replace personally owned instruments.
- The Orlando Police Department says the case is active and investigators are reviewing surveillance from the I‑Drive corridor, and the stolen instruments have not been recovered.
- Local reporting ties the theft to a recurring pattern of trailer break‑ins in the I‑Drive/Lake Buena Vista area, with security tips urging GPS trackers in cases, parking that blocks trailer doors, and digital serial‑number inventories.