Years ago, the PD arrested a guy breaking into a snow plow dealer late night.
Searched his house found tons of truck accessories, tires, rims, landscaping equipment, light bars, 50 radios, scanners, TV's & home electronics, etc. Turns out this fellow had a long history of shoplifting and B&E on those places, including numerous shops, (ours 3 TIMES), closed out 25 B&E cases by SEAZING the evidence, and returning it to the rightful owners after trial. Arrest him and not seize the stuff, guarantee it will bne gone as soon as he gets out on bail. At least this way he can claim his stuff, if he can show it is actually his. Strange twist of fate, several years later, guy shows up at out shop, NOW a rehabbed citizen, new trucks and a bank check to buy 12 mobiles for his new landscaping business. Also apologized. CJD --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, "Jeff Kincaid" <je...@...> wrote: Jerry, I certainly didn't mean to imply that he was doing nothing when I said I hoped the folks he was jamming would receive a huge settlement from him. Sorry if I was unclear. :) I am concerned, however, that the County siezed a boatload of gear that is not known to be involved in any crime. I think they should investigate first, and enforce later, rather than the other way around. > We're pretty far off topic here, so I hope this will be sufficient to clarify my concerns. > > Jeff > > --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, gerald bishop orangetruck38@ wrote: > > > > Hate to say it ,but the last 2 posts make it sound like the guy was doing nothing. Not sure if they warned him,but when you jam a legal freq ,this is what happens,sooner or later. There was another jammer out there ,i think that removal of gear and fines didn't stop him,and was sent to the slammer. Some may think this wrong,but if you didn't ,soon would have what the CB'ers had back in the late 70's. Self-destruction !! Jerry W8KQ > > > > --- On Thu, 7/2/09, Richard slottech@ wrote: > > > > From: Richard slottech@ > > Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Re: IMPORTANT - large amount of stolen equipment recovered - is some yours? > > To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com > > Date: Thursday, July 2, 2009, 8:48 PM Are you kidding? The politicians don't care about the Constitution, to them it is some totally irrelevant old document. In other words, they ignore it and do whatever they want. Richard www.n7tgb.net <http://www.n7tgb.net> -----Original Message----- From: Repeater-Builder@ yahoogroups. com [mailto:Repeater-Builder@ yahoogroups. com] On Behalf Of Jeff Kincaid Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 1:04 PM To: Repeater-Builder@ yahoogroups. com Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: IMPORTANT - large amount of stolen equipment recovered - is some yours? This is really rather frightening. Many of us have similar collections of gear, and I'm wondering on what basis it was seized. I don't remember anything in the Constitution about seizure of potentially stolen property. I hope the stuff is his and he gets a really huge settlement (and that the folks he was jamming get the same from him). The idea that a government minion can simply decide that you have too much radio gear and take it seems rather onerous.
