For those who have been around long enough, remember way back in April when my garage got broken into? Finally had my day in court. Didn't get the rip that stole the stuff, but the Judge locked away the girl that sold the parts.
Way back when I was remodelling my downstairs of the house I forgot to shut the rear gate on a Friday evening (Exhausted). Didn't even realize I'd been hit for a few days, then noticed parts missing. Finally they ended up with a little over $2100 in parts and a Paxton SN-92 head unit I'd just rebuilt. A month later a set of my BBK headers turned up on a local car and it unravelled pretty quick. The thief was in jail for going through cars at a local bar and his girlfriend ended up with the parts. She dumped a bunch of them on another boy and he sold the headers to another guy. I got hold of the first buyer and he called her about the blower and she gave it to him to sell to me so she wasn't involved with the sale, but was to get the money. He called her back once I had the blower and I talked to her. Told her I just wanted her to help prosecute the guy that had stole the stuff (her boyfriend that was locked up). Instead she told the police detective some guy named Tommy had left the parts at her house and the thief (Ron Tabler (in jail)) denied any knowledge of the parts.
At the district court hearing she opted for a jury trial without the advice of a lawyer and at todays ciruit court trial she showed up without a lawyer, but brought one of her three kids (for sympathy I guess). The detective and I were the prosecuting witnesses and she ended up not wanting a jury trial afterall. The judge declared her guilty on the premise that she had a huge amount of mustang high performance parts that were not hers (she said they belonged to Tommy) and she was selling them... Since they were in fact mine she has to pay me $2120 restitution through the probation department within one year of getting out of jail. She was given a 18 month jail sentence with all but 60 days suspended and 18 months of supervised probation. As the bailiff escorted her out the back of the courtroom she wailed 'what about my kids'. The judge replied that social services would take care of them...
Merry Christmas... Pretty heart wrenching at the end, considering all she had to do was help prosecute Ron Tabler for stealing my parts.
Jamie
Way back when I was remodelling my downstairs of the house I forgot to shut the rear gate on a Friday evening (Exhausted). Didn't even realize I'd been hit for a few days, then noticed parts missing. Finally they ended up with a little over $2100 in parts and a Paxton SN-92 head unit I'd just rebuilt. A month later a set of my BBK headers turned up on a local car and it unravelled pretty quick. The thief was in jail for going through cars at a local bar and his girlfriend ended up with the parts. She dumped a bunch of them on another boy and he sold the headers to another guy. I got hold of the first buyer and he called her about the blower and she gave it to him to sell to me so she wasn't involved with the sale, but was to get the money. He called her back once I had the blower and I talked to her. Told her I just wanted her to help prosecute the guy that had stole the stuff (her boyfriend that was locked up). Instead she told the police detective some guy named Tommy had left the parts at her house and the thief (Ron Tabler (in jail)) denied any knowledge of the parts.
At the district court hearing she opted for a jury trial without the advice of a lawyer and at todays ciruit court trial she showed up without a lawyer, but brought one of her three kids (for sympathy I guess). The detective and I were the prosecuting witnesses and she ended up not wanting a jury trial afterall. The judge declared her guilty on the premise that she had a huge amount of mustang high performance parts that were not hers (she said they belonged to Tommy) and she was selling them... Since they were in fact mine she has to pay me $2120 restitution through the probation department within one year of getting out of jail. She was given a 18 month jail sentence with all but 60 days suspended and 18 months of supervised probation. As the bailiff escorted her out the back of the courtroom she wailed 'what about my kids'. The judge replied that social services would take care of them...
Merry Christmas... Pretty heart wrenching at the end, considering all she had to do was help prosecute Ron Tabler for stealing my parts.
Jamie