ST. LOUIS • A trip through St. Louis for the students and chaperones of an Indiana high school traveling from an agricultural competition in Oklahoma took a disappointing turn when the group’s belongings were stolen from their bus.

Southern Wells High School teacher Steve Stauffer said he, his wife, and a group of eight high-school students stopped by the Old Spaghetti Factory at Laclede’s Landing for lunch on Friday and then discovered their bus had been burglarized.

The Future Farmers of America group from Poneto, Ind., had just completed a week of contests in Oklahoma City.

Stauffer said he made a police report documenting items stolen from the vehicle, including laptops, cameras, credit cards, clothes and awards students had won in previous competitions. Even one student’s insulin was stolen.

“I have taken kids to St. Louis for over 40 years but am concerned if it is safe to continue. Surveillance is lacking in such a tourist spot,” Stauffer said in an email.

Friday’s theft wasn’t the first time Stauffer experienced a theft while visiting St. Louis with students, he said. A similar incident happened about seven years ago when his group parked near the Arch.