So 5am call and guess what wheels and tires stolen !

Want to know the kicker I loaded stocks last night to change out

 

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Wow... That sucks! Some jackass tried to steal the spare from my rubicon (lucky for me, my dog started barking and scared him off). After that all my vehicles got wheel locks. It'll at least slow them down or they'll move on to an easier target.

 

Have the police get prints off that wrench.

 

That always sucks.

At least they left you their tools.

 

This is why we can't have nice things.

 

Cops are lazy

The thief came back and grabbed the tools pretty much as a was meeting the officer we got them on tape boss is trying to get plate number now

 

Sweet. Get 'em.

 

So blue Chrysler van with Idaho plates to blurry to see numbers dang people

 

Yeah, it ain't NCIS - they can't press the magic button to "enhance" the crappy video and read the plate.

Sorry.

- Eric

 

I love State Farm classic insurance everything is covered !!

 

I have state farm too and when I crashed my car everything was covered.

 

I hope the police are looking for the van and not blowing it off.

 

The officers attitude was sorry you shouldn't have nice things had no intest at all no pics didn't even want pics of the wheels just took edit value and watched the tapes then gave me case number to file with my insurance

 

Sorry to say, no profit in it for the city. Now if the insurance was offering a finder's fee you might get their attention. Gather up all your friends and hit the pawn shops, watch the classifieds, Craigslist and ebay. Friends includes us ... If they were stupid and sloppy enough to leave tools behind ... and then come back for them ... they're not done being stupid yet. Plenty of opportunity to do your own detective work. What you do when you find them ... don't discuss.

Everyone else ... time to get your pretties etched and engraved. Insurance companies will often do it for free these days, no reason not to get it done. It won't stop the low lifes from stealing them .. but it ruins their profit.

 

A theif...Hang 'em high.

 

Had wheel locks .

 

Sorry to hear that. What type of wheels did they steal? Stock or Custom? Do you have any pics you can load?

 

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MB old school
Front 17x8
Rears 17x9.5

 

Nice rims, glad to hear that State Farm covers them. Hope you get fully reimbursed.

 

Update detective has suspects !! He is just trying to link them solid to the case came by and picked up the jack used to dust for finger prints

 

Where did this crime take place?

 

Salt Lake City

 

At work, a storage unit,...?

 

My work a car dealer ship and collision repair


Got them back just picked them up

They are being charged with a felony and the officer is filling eviction notices at there apt because it just behind the shop

 

File a restraining order on them for your shop.

 

Yes the officer did that is part of the eviction process.

 

That is great news! I'm glad you got your rims and tires back.

Damn, I hate thieves.

 

Wow! That's great!

Unusual for the bad guys to get caught in real life.

Now lets just hope the cops did their jobs well and the DA can get convictions.

If possible, see if there's a victim services law that will let you get their mug shots to put on the wall by the shop entrance, so everybody knows what they look like.

- Eric

 

Good news!
Rarely happens a victim
gets their stuff back. Congrats.

 

Great news. Now go buy a set of $20 locking lug nuts and at least make them work at it:

 

I had locking lug nuts . They sold them to a local tire shop and he took pics of them and copied there ID's he bought them for a hundred bucks and he gave me locking lugs to replace the damaged ones


There are five guys being charged and they are all pointing to each other

 

20+ years ago had my unrestored, partly dismantled Vista stored in a friend's 'secure' warehouse in Detroit. It was in the company of BB Vettes, Packards, Cadillacs, etc.

Got a call there was a break in, my stock SSII's with nice tires were gone. Felt bad but not as bad as another friend who's 64 Vette vert he owned since new was missing too.

Shocked to hear Detroit Police FOUND the Vette?!?! It was actually recovered before it was even reported stolen. Good deal for the Vette owner.

Never got my wheels back. Friend who owned the building said they took all his tools, supplies - even his stash of t.p. They scratched/dinged the Packard next to the Vista with a jack when removing the wheels. I found my car covered with fingerprint powder.

The crooks? None other than hizhonner da Mayor Coleman A. Young's nephew.

AFAIK, they were never charged.

 

Man, it is so unusual to hear a happy ending to one of these stories. Glad it turned out good. How did they break the locking nuts?

 

I guess it must be the lug nut I can't see in this pic

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Very good!

 

Okay now that I can sit down I will some it up

The theif lived just behind the shop we believe he was after some wheels for his personal car ( his is sitting on blocks ) but got side tracked on my car . So when the came back to grab there tools we got there van on camera. We know they threw the wheels over the fence that morning. The officer checked with the apartments office for there security tapes ( witch were no help ) the maintice worker said there was a tendent that was selling wheels like that .

Detective contacted me and got pictures of them and went back they comfermed they were. Them then arrested them they told officer where they were .

The tire shop bought them but knew something wasn't right took pic of sellers and copied ID's ( bought them for a hundred bucks )
The owner gave me new wheel locks and the theif gave the officer all my lug nuts .

Six people totall charged with felony theft and two class b misdemeanour hope they all get charged equally
Happy ending
Thanks for all the support

 

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Takes a certain kind of thief to let the shop they're selling the goods to take their pictures and IDs.

Glad that was the kind of thief you had.

- Eric

 

Want to know the kicker they lived behind the shop and sold them across the street and about a block down from the shop


Funny thing was the shop owner has a 74 olds too bad he lifted the poor car