Stolen Goods

Victim finds stolen log splitter on ‘craigslist’:

Joshua Clark Butler, 23, and Dallas Harmon, 22, of Gardnerville, Nevada were arrested for trying to sell a stolen log splitter on craigslist. The actual owner was able to identify his log splitter through the serial number.

Not that I should be giving tips to criminals but if you’re going to sell stolen goods on craigslist you may want to try something more generic than a log splitter.

Police discover chop shop in Milwaukie:

That charming not white trash at all couple are 29-year-old John Dupille and 26-year-old Cori Lee McCullar of Milwaukie, Oregon. They were arrested for running a car chop shop and a fencing organization. Guess which website they used to sell their massive cache of stolen goods. Why every criminals favorite website for stolen goods, craigslist.

McCullar was also busted for meth possession. There’s a shock.

Thanks to Greg for the tip.

Deputies find stolen hard drives for sale on Craigslist:

Sacramento police were alerted to some 250GB hard drives being stolen. Police decided to look on craigslist and lo and behold there were some 250GB hard drives sale marked ‘first com first served’.

Police arrested 21-year-old Eduardo Quiroz who was selling the hard drives. Also arrested were Edgar Hoffman, 45, and Lynda Hoffman, 41.

In the not quite a year I’ve been doing this site one of the most common questions I get is “My (insert name of item here) has been stolen and placed on craigslist. What do I do?” That answer is a very simple one. Call your local police and enlist their help.

I know there have been stories on here where citizens have taken matters into their own hands and have been successful in getting their stuff back but I do not recommend that. It only takes a split second for a situation like that to turn into a tragic one.

Please leave law enforcement in the hands of professionals.

School Warehouse Worker Accused Of Theft:
A warehouse worker for Portland Public Schools thought he was slick by stealing school equipment before logging it in to the school’s inventory.

Cristan Mocan, 24 who was assigned to enter the school district’s purchases into its inventory, would visit the school warehouse after business hours, police said.

Mocan is accused of stealing projectors, computers, printers and cameras before they were logged into the Portland Public Schools inventory system.

Of course he was caught when he tried to use craigslist as his fence.

School administrators began to suspect that equipment was missing from their inventory and one employee spotted a Craigslist.org ad that announced a digital projector for sale. School officials believed the projector belonged to the district, and two police detectives set a meeting with the Craigslist seller to buy the advertised projector.

Police said they determined the projector was stolen, and detectives arrested David Handolescu, 19, and Ben Handolescu, 20, in connection with the school warehouse theft.

Detectives eventually linked the theft to Mocan, according to police.

Apparently he wasn’t as slick as he thought.