Since the Robbery-- Good and Bad News

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Some of you replied to my post about being robbed-- well, we had an interesting day here that started yesterday and ended today (DUH! OK, that doesn't sound right, but you know what I mean). I got up this morning later than usual-- I slept in until 9 a.m... When I went outside, lo and behold, there's a sheriff car parked in front of the neighbor down the hill's house. I turned around to go up the drive and get the mail-- and my two spare propane tanks, that were chained not far from my trailer, were gone. Chain on the ground, lock snipped-- and they're ten gallon tanks, cost a hundred dollars each. So, while walking to the mailbox, I called 911. The lady said the sheriff was down the hill from me, and I waited by my mailbox. The sheriff pulled in, and I showed him, and he said they (he and other neighbor) were on their way to Ms. Trashy's trailer on top of the hill. The sheriff had been there twice last night, for her loud party. We all got up there, and she comes out hung over and screaming that we, including sheriff were trespassing. And attached to her trailer were MY propane tanks. I pointed that out to the sheriff and showed him my list with the certification numbers (I had it for his police report). Then the neighbor starts in, and it turned out he had hidden a camera over his front door in a hanging planter-- and had her, with her kid, forcing the doorknob with a crowbar, at like 4 in the morning (he was away visiting son in Seattle, got home around 8:30). Meanwhile, our sheriff had called a second sheriff, citing probable cause, and had also phoned in for a warrant, and a CPS worker to go to the school and get the kid. She was screaming and tried to attack my neighbor-- then two more sheriffs showed up, and detained her, and we all stood around and waited for the warrant (a half hour). When the sheriffs opened the trailer-- there was all my neighbor's stuff, plus stuff that belonged to two other people on the road (who had heard about the commotion and showed up to see if their stuff was there). The whole time she's screaming that she got this stuff from her friends, and she was innocent, yada yada--then they started bringing out all the stuff, including (I was Appalled) a bunch of world war 2 medals, and a service flag an urn with ashes in it people's photo albums and 5 trash bags of other people's mail... And that was before they found the meth in her closet. And the shed there was full of stuff too-- unfortunately, only my propane tanks, but the theory we developed watching this was that she and hr friends would immediately sell high value items, and keep around stuff she wanted, or something. The landlord had ben called, and he headed right to the court-- because up here, in this county at least, if drugs or crime are happening in a rental property, you can expedite an eviction-- and she was already due to appear before the judge for eviction next week anyway. So she got hauled off, her son got taken from school, and the cops spent all day processing the crime scene for fingerprints. I will get my propane tanks back, and a lot of people were coming and going, certifying stuff was theirs-- since it was all evidence, a lot of people elected to leave it with the cops until after she is tried and convicted or not convicted, and pick it up then-- my propanes were spares, so I did that. But people took home their scrapbooks, and mail-- and I had a pile of mail-- including checks from 3 survey companies! Cha Ching-- I had been expecting those in the mail for several weeks, and was beginning to wonder where they were--- Now the whole property is taped off, and the sheriffs are staking it out from a couple of groves of trees, to catch her friends as they appear-- they have already hauled off a few people. Big excitement for this part of the county. I still can't believe someone would steal service flags--or scrapbooks---or funeral urns. How low can people get?