Hello all: Close family and friends will find this info interesting . . . so I digress one more time. We had been hearing on the mountain for a while now that 'someone' had walked into Kim's house over two months ago (Kim being the lady we'd kept employed as our gardener for the past several years whose house is in the subdivision next to ours) and had seen my big expensive jukebox that was stolen from us sitting right there in her bedroom. It was apparently common knowledge around here. Kim hasn't been living there but the house had been rented to a man who, apparently everyone on the mountain also knew was a felon who last year got out of jail for grand theft, and had violated his parole by leaving Winslow and renting the house from Kim's family.
Hubby and I have been saying all along we feel someone who knew us broke into our home, not just because of the things that were taken, but the things that weren't taken and the way they knew things about our place that no stranger would know. Where to look, where not to bother, hidden storage areas, stuff like that. Then to hear that supposedly our jukebox was sitting in a house right down the road, it was infuriating! And the Sheriff and Coconino County weren't doing anything about it!
We received a phone call this morning from a neighbor of Kim's who said there were cops swarming the place with a search warrant and arrest warrant for this renter, (FINALLY) who coincidentally was tipped off and fled the house less than ten minutes before they got there. He's still at large. Hubby went right over to that house and the Sheriff let him in . . there were dozens of key sets strewn all over the kitchen table . . . including one that looked suspiciously like the missing key to our Ford T-Bird. John took the key home, put it in the car's ignition and voila' the car started right up! The only reason they didn't get the T-Bird that night was because the battery was dead, but they took the keys apparently planning to return another time for the car. They found two of our printers, and our brand new air-conditioner was still in the box in the back yard! The smaller new one we had is hanging out Kim's living-room window right by the front door, and two old ice-chests of ours were sitting on the front porch! Of all the arrogance. And to think, we ourselves kept Kim employed for years when no one else would. GRRRRR!!! Our jukebox wasn't there, of course. Law enforcement took too ridiculously long to act. But they found the paperwork for it which had been taped on the back of the jukebox on the floor in the bedroom, then had the gall to ask hubby to give the make and model number of the jukebox! He said; "It's right there on the paperwork! How many other commercial grade jukeboxes do you think there are up here on the mountain?" DUHHHH!
The recovered items are a mere drop in the bucket of all they stole from us, but at least maybe this thieving spree is at last over . . . we had two break-ins just last weekend, and two the weekend before that! The total count for this tiny community is forty-one! That's disgusting and shows such a lack of caring and/or competence on the Coconino County's police dept's part. Shame on them for being so complacent! Knowing this guy was violating parole should have been all the excuse they needed to get at least a search warrant months ago! Later, all. I'm going to go sulk a while.
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