Scammed looking for your help *picture of scammer punk added*

[speedog]

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This guy looks like such a tool. Time to bring him down! Organized Beyond Sting?

You're offering?

[Disoblige]

It looks like there is a case number with the police already. With the rental license plate, that could potentially lead to his real identity and eventually, residential address.
Hopefully the constable in charge is trying to do that.

[adidas]

OP, seeing your video, I suspected that you wouldn't see your bag again. The next time that you run into him take his jacket, sunglasses, shoes, etc., as collateral.

[Maxx Mazda]

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No offense at all, but why would you confront him? People get stabbed/shot for far less with all the psychos out there, it's not worth it... Things can escalate really fast and no offense again, but shame on your woman for putting you in that situation over a few hundred dollars? She obviously doesn't care.. Am I crazy?

Not crazy, just a victim of the "hurt feelings" generation. I'd have done the same thing. Sure, there are psychos out there, but I certainly was not raised with the mentality that if someone steals from you, you just let them get away with it. It's the lack of the fear of repercussion or confrontation that allows these guys to continue to get away with shit like this.

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OP, seeing your video, I suspected that you wouldn't see your bag again. The next time that you run into him take his jacket, sunglasses, shoes, etc., as collateral.

Funny you mention this, he looked scared shitless at the time. I'd have suggested that very thing as well. "Ok, go get the bag, and in the meantime, give me the rest of your envelope of fake cash so I can turn it into the police, your jacket that you "bought" from my friend, and your glasses and hat too while we're at it." He looked scared enough that he would probably comply.

[bigbadboss101]

Send him the clip from "Taken". "I will find you and ...." :-)

[BensonTT]

You should have blocked his car so he couldn’t go then call the cops..

[Mitsu3000gt]

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Its a question of resource allocation. For eg. you have a choice of a case of where some fucknuts beat his GF or some clown buying shit with fake bill.

It depends on the AMOUNT of counterfeit bills. If its 50-100$ they wont bother, but now that this is high profile and this guy has obviously gotten around a lot, the CPS will notice more.

The two scenarios I was talking about before involved $5000-$7000 generators, two of them. Wasn't even enough for CPS to raise an eyebrow, even with an easy serial number conviction, phone numbers, meeting already set, etc. If they simply showed up they would have got him.

The unfortunate ending to the above story was that the owners actually met the thief (he didn't know they were the victims) and they bought back their own stolen property from the thief themselves, because it was still cheaper than buying a new one or making an insurance claim. After CPS refused to do anything, this became their best option. How sad is that when enabling and rewarding the thief becomes the victim's best option because CPS refuses to do anything? It's an absolute failure.

To add insult to injury, if a citizen showed up to one of those meetings and forcibly took their own property back, THEN the police all of a sudden care, and the victim gets in trouble.

[NissanFanBoy]

What happened to the videos?

[Rocket1k78]

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No offense at all, but why would you confront him? People get stabbed/shot for far less with all the psychos out there, it's not worth it... Things can escalate really fast

That was definitely a very bad idea but what baffles me even more is why would you set up the meet at Joes shop? instead of putting yourself at risk the one time you put Joe and his place at risk for who knows how long. If this guy gets caught or he gets wind that this is going around about him(which he deserves) he could very well retaliate

[phil98z24]

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The two scenarios I was talking about before involved $5000-$7000 generators, two of them. Wasn't even enough for CPS to raise an eyebrow, even with an easy serial number conviction, phone numbers, meeting already set, etc. If they simply showed up they would have got him.

The unfortunate ending to the above story was that the owners actually met the thief (he didn't know they were the victims) and they bought back their own stolen property from the thief themselves, because it was still cheaper than buying a new one or making an insurance claim. After CPS refused to do anything, this became their best option. How sad is that when enabling and rewarding the thief becomes the victim's best option because CPS refuses to do anything? It's an absolute failure.

To add insult to injury, if a citizen showed up to one of those meetings and forcibly took their own property back, THEN the police all of a sudden care, and the victim gets in trouble.

You keep referring to this case over and over again when you decide to contribute to these threads, so I’m curious as to why you haven’t made a complaint with professional standards and receive an official explanation of why this went down the way you say? This isn’t helpful to the OP, and instead of discouraging him during what’s clearly a very new and ongoing investigation, maybe it would be helpful to just not get all negative about it right now. This hasn’t even had a chance to go anywhere yet and you’re already coming down on the efforts to resolve this.

Chill man!

[The_Rural_Juror]

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That was definitely a very bad idea but what baffles me even more is why would you set up the meet at Joes shop? instead of putting yourself at risk the one time you put Joe and his place at risk for who knows how long. If this guy gets caught or he gets wind that this is going around about him(which he deserves) he could very well retaliate

Wait. It wasn't even OP's shop? Dafuq.

[revelations]

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What happened to the videos?

shit head probably flagged video

[msommers]

Would police advise to take them down if there's an ongoing investigation?

[shadowz]

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That was definitely a very bad idea but what baffles me even more is why would you set up the meet at Joes shop? instead of putting yourself at risk the one time you put Joe and his place at risk for who knows how long. If this guy gets caught or he gets wind that this is going around about him(which he deserves) he could very well retaliate

Joe is my best friend, he wanted me to come to the shop and thought that would be best and safest place. CPS has had me take down the videos. The shop has HD cameras everywhere for us to gain footage of the people involved. Trust me I thought of meeting him anywhere else but Joe wanted us to have the footage acquired at the shop. The scammer returned my bag. The investigation is on going.

[jwslam]

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The scammer returned my bag.

Details pls

[max_boost]

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Joe is my best friend, he wanted me to come to the shop and thought that would be best and safest place. CPS has had me take down the videos. The shop has HD cameras everywhere for us to gain footage of the people involved. Trust me I thought of meeting him anywhere else but Joe wanted us to have the footage acquired at the shop. The scammer returned my bag. The investigation is on going.

Props for keeping your cool and handling it so well. Otherwise

[Rocket1k78]

Joes a good guy like that! Glad to hear you got it back

[Sugarphreak]

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[Mitsu3000gt]

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You keep referring to this case over and over again when you decide to contribute to these threads, so I’m curious as to why you haven’t made a complaint with professional standards and receive an official explanation of why this went down the way you say? This isn’t helpful to the OP, and instead of discouraging him during what’s clearly a very new and ongoing investigation, maybe it would be helpful to just not get all negative about it right now. This hasn’t even had a chance to go anywhere yet and you’re already coming down on the efforts to resolve this.

Chill man!

Wouldn't you be frustrated? Anyway, my colleagues who this happened to have already gone down all those avenues to no avail, they have moved on. Nothing ever came of it to my knowledge.

[revelations]

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CPS has had me take down the videos.

I find that a little odd - you arent naming anyone specifically (looking for info) and I see security tapes of these kinds all the time posted by the CPS. Have they even posted this onto their social media?

You WANT exposure and this clown to be identified, which is exactly what your high quality video did.