About Filing a Police Report

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HollyGolightly

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I had no proof of course, but my suspicion was that a person that made a delivery to my office did this. The day before the first check hit a bank, I just happened to be all alone at my shop that day. So the office was open with me working out back for quite a bit of the day. I got a delivery that day and was out back and the delivery guy was alone in my office for a while before I got in there. The delivery just happened to be a COD. So I wrote a check and gave to the delivery guy. So, I'm thinking he could have taken the checks and with me giving him a check, he had my checking signature.

I don't really know if that's how it went down, but that scenario seemed most likely to me.
Excellent detective work! That makes perfect sense. Good Lord - you just can't trust anyone!
 

not_nadine

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Nov 19, 2011
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See, this sort of thing happened to me a few years ago. It was my debit card.

It was the daughter of a friend. Got my pin. Same deal, would take it from my drawer or pocketbook.

Going through my things.


Wiped my whole bank account out in two months, down to the security. At the time, I could not do anything about it. The lil sh!ts father paid me back, but still - I swore something like this would not happen again.
 

kingricefan

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This is the part that would get to me the most. Such a violation.
The duplex that I shared with a friend years ago was broken into and burglarized. They took just stupid things- some food out of the fridge, stuff like that. The only thing of value was an electric typewriter and a metal strong box that had some old coins in it, nothing worth thousands at all. But, it definitely was the worst type of feeling knowing that 'they' had gone thru our things- dresser drawers, etc.
 

GNTLGNT

The idiot is IN
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Not a problem. Anything for my fellow SKMB'ers:)
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Grandpa

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ghost19 man, you're great. Thank you so much. Isn't it nice to have a positive influence on people's lives?

I've have multiple contacts with police on traffic things over my life and never had occasion to complain about any of them, with one memorable exception, and he was a d|ck because I was young and on a motorcycle and had long hair (it was that kind of time). But almost everyone else, no issues.

But the two police reports I actually filed, one for a stolen motorcycle, one for a fraudulent credit card (I was the merchant)? Nada. I found the bike on my own, which is another story, and the credit card report is in the bowels of the Detroit Police Department somewhere. But I expected that much of the DPD. I'm sure they have other and bigger fish to fry.
 

ghost19

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ghost19 man, you're great. Thank you so much. Isn't it nice to have a positive influence on people's lives?

I've have multiple contacts with police on traffic things over my life and never had occasion to complain about any of them, with one memorable exception, and he was a d|ck because I was young and on a motorcycle and had long hair (it was that kind of time). But almost everyone else, no issues.

But the two police reports I actually filed, one for a stolen motorcycle, one for a fraudulent credit card (I was the merchant)? Nada. I found the bike on my own, which is another story, and the credit card report is in the bowels of the Detroit Police Department somewhere. But I expected that much of the DPD. I'm sure they have other and bigger fish to fry.

It's very easy for police reports to fall thru the cracks. There's a continuous stream of reports that come thru a police station, both on the patrol and the detective side. Literally the reports come night and day 365 days a year. It's like trying to swim in a flooded river trying to stay on top of your case load. It gets very stressful and when someone assists you with some of the leg work or takes some of the initiative to be pro-active on their end, it makes the case so much easier to work. It hardly ever happens which is why I was trying to give NN as many steps as possible to help get the ex-roomie hauled in for what he did.

I was a wise ass to a cop once....ONCE when I was sixteen. Ended up giving me a much deserved speeding ticket. The funny thing? When I go work for the police department ten years later, want to guess which officer was my shift supervisor?? Luckily he didn't remember me even though I told him about the ticket. He just laughed and told me something like "If I wanted to hear a story from you about getting a speeding ticket from me, I'd have you write a report"..lol