Update on interesting development

[hrj]

More than sympathy, less than recovery. The woman who had stopped by came by again (with a very cute little daughter in tow). It turns out her mother had been picking up her car at the auto shop on San Pablo a few blocks away and had found an item that had been in my safe that had my name and address on it and looked important. So she offered to drop by with it to return it and give me the details. It's nice when someone goes out of their way to do the right thing like that. So this tells me: A) the safe has been opened; and B) the perp is probably local to the neighborhood where the object was found (which isn't exactly astonishing, given that neighborhood).

After she dropped it off, I walked over to the location and walked up and down that stretch of San Pablo but didn't find anything. (It was getting dark so I wasn't about to wander off and poke around too much.) Coming back home, I was reminded that there's a used computer store just two blocks from my place, so I stopped by and chatted with the proprietor and gave him a description of the laptop and my contact information. It was a bit of a ... delicate ... conversation, since I was implying that he might be in a position to be offered stolen property while trying not to appear to accuse him of being a fence.

Now to do some on-line research to determine where, in the neighborhood, second-hand jewelry might be fe... um, offered for sale.

Comments

[countess-e.livejournal.com]

When I had a similar lousy-ass experience some years ago, I actually got slightly lucky in recovery of a few things in just that way, by alerting local businesses and keeping eyes open. Best of all possible luck.

[lapioggia.livejournal.com]

I will keep my fingers crossed that this leads to more recoveries.
Don't forget to call the cops & let them know about this development of course.

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

I hope your efforts result in tracing more of the stolen items.

[aastg.livejournal.com]

Where are the nearest pawnshops? A friend of mine in Texas was robbed (by her housekeeper's boyfriend), and she got all of her jewelry back because he'd pawned it all in one place. (She had pictures & insurance summary and a copy of the police report to prove ownership.)

[hrj.livejournal.com]

I'm researching that. I don't know of any in the immediate neighborhood, but I think there may be some further sound on San Pablo down near the card clubs.