Thieves held British band Sports Team at gunpoint Tuesday approximately “10 minutes into” their U.S. tour.
The band revealed that the situation occurred at a Starbucks in Vallejo, California, early in the morning.
“A man runs in saying some guys are crashing into a van,” the group's Instagram read. “He ran out to try to stop him and found some masked guys ransacking the truck. They start screaming and pull out a gun. The police response was 'submit a report online.'”
“They lost a lot of personal equipment, but they didn't get the instruments, so they headed to Sacramento to play tonight,” the band added. “They can take away our Nintendo Switches, but they can never take away our ability to play highway rock songs.
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British band Sports Team had a gun pointed at them as thieves stole items from the band's van. (Lorne Thomson/Redferns)
“In all seriousness, it's pretty shocking how resigned everyone seemed. 'It happens.' At 9 in the morning at some Starbucks in a gas station. Wild.”
“In all seriousness, it's pretty shocking how resigned everyone seemed. 'It happens.' At 9 in the morning at some Starbucks in a gas station. Wild.”
Fox News Digital has reached out to the Vallejo Police Department for additional information.
The band's laptops, internal monitors, personal items and cameras were taken in the robbery, but not the instruments “because the back of the van is fortified,” frontman Alex Rice told Sky News.
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Sports Team said it was “quite shocking how resigned everyone seemed to be” to the terrifying situation. (Lorne Thomson/Redferns)
The passports of three of the six members were also confiscated.
“To be honest, the most immediate concern for us is passports,” he told the outlet. “They took our passports from three of us.
“It's a 'try to get to the consulate and fix that by Christmas' kind of situation.”
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The Sports Team's Rob Knaggs, Oli Dewdney, Al Greenwood, Alex Rice, Henry Young and Ben Mack perform at Webster Hall on November 9 in New York City. Three of the members had their passports stolen in the robbery. (Astrida Valigorsky/Getty Images)
The group will continue their tour of the United States while promoting their upcoming album, “Boys These Days.”
“We're very lucky to be able to do that,” Rice told Sky News. “We have a lot of friends in San Francisco. People have been incredibly supportive.
“It's a terrible thing that happened, but we're lucky they didn't take our instruments, which has happened to us in the past.”
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