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On May 27, 11:31 am, "RST Engineering"
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I'm in for twenty under the same conditions as dub.

Jim

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On May 25, 10:03 am, wrote:
$1500 cash reward for info leading to arrest and conviction of lowlife
scum thieves who broke into hangars and aircraft at Rutherford County,
NC Airport [KFQD] and stole the following items on or about Thursday,
May 19, 2007:
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I'll kick in a twenty... subject to the conviction AND incarceration
of the thief. (This slap-on-the-hand, suspended-sentence bull**** is
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Thanks everbody.

Deputies caught someone trying to fence a set of Bose headsets and
Garmin 295 taken at the airport. Deputy also says they have found my
Garmin 195. Several serch warrants have already been used.
It looks like the thieves were homeboys.

If this pan's out it will be the first time in my life of over 50
years when anything stolen was recovered. I had a car stolen, two
motorcycles, several housebreakings, and plenty of cars broken into
and nobody ever caught and nothing ever returned. I quit driving
convertibles because of the tops getting cut up by car burglers. And
no insureance neither. Am sure most everybody else has been hurt by
thieves. This one gave me a real hartburn that will still burns years
later.

Some time ago two big twin Harly Davidson motorcycles were stolen in a
break-in. ONe of them was mine. It was almost new. License and
thieft division of the Florida Burau of Investigation found one of the
bikes at a Daytona bike show. The numbers had been altared but they
found secrit vehicle identifiction numbers.

They had these thieves caught dead to rights and didn't even arrest
them. They found out the bikes had been taken by a gang in West
Virgina they had connections to one of the mechanics who worked at the
shop where the bikes were stolen.. The person who the bike was stole
form in Daytona came back with a treller with a fake bill of sale and
took it back to West Virginia. His only problem was they wouldn't
issue a tag to him. Nobody was ever brought to justice. There's
severl people who ought to have a bullet in there head but got off
scott free.

If this pan's out it will be the first time in my life of over 50
years when anything stolen was recovered. I had a car stolen, two
motorcycles, several housebreakings, and plenty of cars broken into
and nobody ever caught and nothing ever returned. I quit driving
convertibles because of the tops getting cut up by car burglers. And
no insureance neither. Am sure most everybody else has been hurt by
thieves. This one gave me a real hartburn that will still burns years
later.

Dang, Vic, you need to move back to America. Out here in God's
Country, we just don't see stuff like that...ever.

Heck, we don't even lock our convertible.

Glad you're getting your stuff back.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

On May 31, 8:12 am, wrote:


Deputies caught someone trying to fence a set of Bose headsets and
Garmin 295 taken at the airport. Deputy also says they have found my
Garmin 195. Several serch warrants have already been used.
It looks like the thieves were homeboys.

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I respectfully suggest that you keep the pressure on, not only with
the Sheriff's department but with the prosecutor's office.

There is a tendency to allow crimes against property to go virtually
unpunished, lawyer'd away in plea bargains justified by limited
resources and community attention devoted to cases having a higher
profile. You may have to work pretty hard to get the idea across to
your community as well as the people it hires, that laws which are not
enforced simply encourages illegal activities.

Use the media to your advantage. There's more involved here than a
simple B&E.

-R.S.Hoover

I respectfully suggest that you keep the pressure on, not only with
the Sheriff's department but with the prosecutor's office.

There is a tendency to allow crimes against property to go virtually
unpunished,


I had very carefully drilled out hundreds of rivets to allow the entire rear
fuselage of an Alon A2A to be used by a chap to repair his damaged plane. In
addition I had a center section which I was removing the rear spar and other
parts from. These were stolen from me. The police wouldn't even come out and
took the report over the phone.

I hit up all the metal recycle places with a complete description of what
was stolen. I found my stuff (run over by a truck and squashed flat with the
12 inch numbers still showing on the flat fuselage) I located the thief and
turned it over to the detective after doing his work for him. It was never
prosecuted !!!

Cheers:

Paul
N1431A

wrote:
$1500 cash reward for info leading to arrest and conviction of lowlife
scum thieves who broke into hangars and aircraft at Rutherford County,
NC Airport [KFQD] and stole the following items on or about Thursday,
May 19, 2007:

1. King KX-99 Portable Navcomm Radio with new NiMH Rechargeable
battery pack and slow charger
2. Pointer 3000 Emergency Locator Transmitter with fresh battery and
snap-in antenna
3. Set of 1/4" drive Snap-on Ratchet Tools with Spare Flex head drive
and 3 extra universal joint sockets (3/8, 7/16, and 1/2) -- in red
plastic case
5. Set of 3/8" drive Snap-On Ratchet Tools with 3/8" to 1/2" adaptor
and two extra Craftsman ratchets, one long, one short--- new red
plastic case Also set of 1/2 drive Snap-Ons in large canvas bag
6. Garmin GPS 195 with antenna and AA battery pack (I will provide
the serial number)
7. Browning Sportsman .22 LR Semi-Automatic Pistol (Mfd. in Belgium)
with checkered walnut grip and 6" barrel in original vinyl case with
oily silicone rag
8. Colt .25 cal. Semi-Automatic Pistol with checkered walnut grips;
this is a tiny handgun that will fit in the palm of your hand
9. Mauser 9MM Kurz (.380) Double Action Semi-Automatic Pistol with
checkered walnut grips. Engraved on the action: Made in Germany,
Imported by Interarms. This is a small handgun similar to a Walther
PPK. It has an unusual hidden hammer.
All three of these handguns are mint condition collector firearms, in
blue steel finish. I am obtaining the serial numbers and will supply
them at a later time.
10. Winchester pump action 12-gauge shotgun loaded with 00 buckshot;
plug removed from magazine. Barrel end accepts various screw-in choke
inserts.
9. Sheridan Blue Streak Forearm Pump Pellet Air Rifle, .20 caliber --
another rare gun with walnut stock, blue finish
10. Maglite D-Cell Flashlight with 6 cells-- 18" long; police issue,
black finish
11. Garmin 496 GPS Receiver (s/n provided later)--- This expensive
navigation device was taken from a Mooney on the north ramp.
12. Vertex Handheld Comm with cracked screen (s/n______)
13. Cuisinart Blender
14. Various 2-cell Maglite Flashlights and headgear LED lights, also
LED flashlight for cockpit with red LED and white LED
15. Ryobi Rechargeable Rotating Head Flashlight 18-volt NiCad with
charger
16. Canon FTB Single Lens Reflex 35MM Camera in leather case; camera
and case damaged from falling off moving motorcycle and rolling.

We'll add to the list as other items are found to be missing.
Rutherford County, NC Sheriff's Department is in charge of the
investigation; you may obtain my cellphone number from them,
particularly from Detective Bailey.
http://www.rutherfordcountync.gov/de...Detectives.php

Aircraft Break-Ins are being investigated by feds because those break-
ins are felony violations of the United States Code.

This reward is my own personal effort; others may add to it. I'll
follow up on that and with other information as it becomes available.
Beware that felons with similar MO's are operating at small rural
airports along the eastern seaboard, according to the FBI.

Any person who receives, possesses, or purchases any one or more of
these stolen items, knowing or having reason to believe the same is
stolen, is also guilty of a felony.

Vic

Keep a close eye on E-Bay for these items! They won't list guns, but the
others are prime E-Bay material. More than one thief has been nailed by
an E-Bay listing.

Rip

On May 25, 1:03 pm, wrote:
$1500 cash reward for info leading to arrest and conviction of lowlife


Two thieves were caught and all the guns but just a fraction of the
tools were returned. The fence seems to have brought back the tools
he felt were worth the $200 he paid and kept the rest. Other words,
if someone buy $3,000 worth of Snap-Ons for $200 it would be hard to
say later he did not know they were hot.

The detective who solved this case has made a big reputation for
himself. He has solved big crimes, right and left. His name is Jeff
Hamrick and he is becoming famous in these parts for digging in his
heels and not letting up.

All the avionics, mostly Garmin, King, and Bose headsets were returned
to their owners too.

The thieves are in jail awaiting trial under $100,000 bonds. They are
local to Rutherford County, in their late 20's and had no criminal
records.

Investigation is still open because of a number of fences and a string
of about 20 burglaries. And we understand another warrant for arrest
is outstanding. There is also official talk that someone on our
airport supplied information.

Watch your security, men, and record all those serial numbers. Serial
numbers helped us out. So did very accurate descriptions of the
property taken.

I would have killed just for that beautiful gold-triggered Browning .
22 target pistol that goes back to my boyhood. And now I'm proud to
say it's back home again.

Thanks to all of your for your support and special thanks to those
good-hearted souls Veedubber and Jim Weir who offered to add to the
reward.

Just let us know when and where to send the $20 when they are convicted.
Who gets the reward?


Jim

--
"Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, and
dance like no one is watching."
--Satchel Paige

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On May 25, 1:03 pm, wrote:


Thanks to all of your for your support and special thanks to those
good-hearted souls Veedubber and Jim Weir who offered to add to the
reward.

On Jun 9, 11:04 am, "RST Engineering" wrote:
Just let us know when and where to send the $20 when they are convicted.
Who gets the reward?

Jim

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"Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, and
dance like no one is watching."
--Satchel Paige

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On May 25, 1:03 pm, wrote:
Thanks to all of your for your support and special thanks to those
good-hearted souls Veedubber and Jim Weir who offered to add to the
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It would be nice to pay a reward but none is payable because law
officers cannot collect rewards. They are required to apprehend
without motives of a reward because it is their job. Only private
citizens can collect rewards. Thanks any way.

One burgler was fingered by a crack addicked girl and confessed. He
flipped on the other two... one of which is still being chased.

Now both burglers caught have confessed. They will get felony prison
sentences. I will report it here when that happens.
Vic

Um ... simple burglary where there was no human hurt, no prior record, local
kids, most of the stuff recovered, confessed and saved the state the time
and trouble of prosecuting and proving ...

My best guess is a felony conviction with no more than a year (probably six
months) in the county pokey with another 5 years of probation.

Not that that is right or wrong, just a guess. Let's see how close I am.

Jim

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"Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, and
dance like no one is watching."
--Satchel Paige



Now both burglers caught have confessed. They will get felony prison
sentences. I will report it here when that happens.
Vic

Richard Riley wrote:
On Sat, 9 Jun 2007 10:43:49 -0700, "RST Engineering"
wrote:

Um ... simple burglary where there was no human hurt, no prior record, local
kids, most of the stuff recovered, confessed and saved the state the time
and trouble of prosecuting and proving ...

My best guess is a felony conviction with no more than a year (probably six
months) in the county pokey with another 5 years of probation.

Not that that is right or wrong, just a guess. Let's see how close I am.

You'er *probably* right, but in my neck of So. Cal the DA doubles down
when a burglar takes guns. State Pen. and more than a year in
custody, even for a first offense. (I see him at the local shooting
range from time to time.)

Since when does the DA establish the sentence? In most states the judge
does that.

Matt