Last year I was dispatched to take a “stolen” vehicle report from a guy. The guy and his whole family was a known serial shoplifter on a massive scale. To the tunes of hundreds of dollars every day he and he his family steal. Their scheme was that they would receipts in parking lots of places like Walmart and then go find those same items on shelves and then go return them for cash. They spread the returns out between family members so that it wasn’t always the same person day after day. Night I busted him he and his 14 year old brother, who was part of the whole ring, had nearly $500 of goods (Walmart loss prevention had caught on).
He didn’t learn his lesson though as he and his family kept doing it and he and others got re-arrested several times. They were only getting caught a fraction of the times they succeeded though. And as non violent crimes the push here like everywhere is to not lock them up.
So now he wants to report that his drug buddy took his car and hadn’t brought it back. I literally started laughing. It wasn’t the most professional thing but I couldn’t help. I literally said something like this is really rich, you a serial thief now wants to report something got stolen from you. He didn’t find it funny which made me just laugh more. Not my finest hour in terms of professionalism but it was so hysterical.
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