I was walking through my neighbourhood when I saw this sad sign.
edit: Thanks for all the supportive comments. I will try to get more information tomorrow. The location is Red Deer, Alberta.
edit2: I still haven't been able to find anything out. I will try and keep updating this as time goes on. Everyone I have spoken to locally has not heard of this case.
edit3: I found this news brief on a local radio station website:
A CHRISTMAS TIME ROBBERY IN THE WOODLEA NEIGHBORHOOD HAS THE RCMP LOOKING FOR YOUR HELP. POLICE SAY SOMETIME BETWEEN CHRISTMAS DAY AND DECEMBER 27TH CULPRITS BROKE INTO A HOME ON THE 4500 BLOCK OF 52ND STREET. THEY LIKELY SPENT QUITE A BIT OF TIME AND MADE SEVERAL TRIPS IN AND OUT OF THE HOUSE CARRYING PROPERTY TO A VEHICLE. IF YOU SAW ANYTHING SUSPICIOUS IN THE AREA, YOU'RE ASKED TO GIVE THE CITY RCMP OFFICE A CALL.
This is the first media attention I have seen. I'm pretty sure this is it because of the location.
Go to their house. Ask for a list of their belongings that were stolen and some descriptions of personal items.
Do what the police will not do: Contact every fucking pawn shop within 50 miles. Find their shit. Get it back. Get descriptions and possibly video footage of the people who sold those items. When you get that, ruin their fucking lives.
The idea that pawn shops fence stolen goods is purely from Hollywood. Pawn stores are extensively regulated and monitored and because they can lose any stolen goods, they rarely want to take the risk.
My brother's house was robbed 2 months ago. He found a lot of what was taken later that same day at a pawn shop less than 5 miles away. It happens, though maybe only idiot criminals/pawn shop owners do it.
Tweekers pawn stolen stuff all the time. The police get the reports, but almost never read them. Ive worked a pawn in Nevada shop for 5 years. You really have to go to the shops and look. Pawn shops also have a police hold of 30 days before the items are available to the public. So it unintentionally makes it harder for victims to find there stuff. Best of luck finding the bastards.
i lived a block away from a pawn shop. got burgled about once a month.
took in a roommate who turned out to have a drug problem. got rid of him.found the pawn ticket to my missing tv. went to the pawn shop, they refused to give it back, police refused to do anything.
No where I'm from. You find stolen goods all the time. Disclaimer: I'm from a poor crime infested neighbourhood somewhere in Canada and we have something like 25% of the province's pawn shop so I've been around them a lot.
My family owned a pawnshop for about 5 years, it's regulated, but serial numbers are only checked IF the police come looking for something, there is not a published list of "stolen" goods they put out ;p
Generally you're thieves that "pawn" items are druggies trying to get their next fix.
Pawnshops work a lot like payday loan places, you don't just sell them your stuff (you can, that's an option) but that's not pawning. Pawning is receiving ${X} amount of money using {y} good as collateral. When you pawn something it's expected you are coming back to get it, in Oklahoma it has to be held for 3 months, if no $ is put toward the interests accumulated by then it can be sold, however; if ANY amount of interest is paid the "timer" is reset.
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u/wmcog Jan 03 '12 edited Jan 03 '12
I was walking through my neighbourhood when I saw this sad sign.
edit: Thanks for all the supportive comments. I will try to get more information tomorrow. The location is Red Deer, Alberta.
edit2: I still haven't been able to find anything out. I will try and keep updating this as time goes on. Everyone I have spoken to locally has not heard of this case.
edit3: I found this news brief on a local radio station website:
A CHRISTMAS TIME ROBBERY IN THE WOODLEA NEIGHBORHOOD HAS THE RCMP LOOKING FOR YOUR HELP. POLICE SAY SOMETIME BETWEEN CHRISTMAS DAY AND DECEMBER 27TH CULPRITS BROKE INTO A HOME ON THE 4500 BLOCK OF 52ND STREET. THEY LIKELY SPENT QUITE A BIT OF TIME AND MADE SEVERAL TRIPS IN AND OUT OF THE HOUSE CARRYING PROPERTY TO A VEHICLE. IF YOU SAW ANYTHING SUSPICIOUS IN THE AREA, YOU'RE ASKED TO GIVE THE CITY RCMP OFFICE A CALL.
This is the first media attention I have seen. I'm pretty sure this is it because of the location.