Some of you saw my other thread, but those that didnt, here was my original post: http://www.turbobuick.com/forums/turbo-lounge/204919-so-i-wake-up-morning-find.html
Today I was driving my friends car with him in the passenger seat on a main street in this town I live in when I spot an Intrigue like mine waiting for the light to pull onto the road I was on. As I pass by I tell my friend "Watch, this is the mofo that stole my wheel" and amazingly, I spot some scummy "gangster" types iinside and, 3 factory chrome wheels and 1 non chrome wheel like mine.
I immediately pull a u turn and manuever behind them several cars back. I trail them to a house a few miles down the road where I see them pull in the driveway that wraps around the back of the house (a crappy looking rented house)
I called the cops... I didnt think they would do much but a cop showed up rght away (we were waiting down the street) and basically gave us the story that there was no way he could prove it was my wheel, yadd yadda
He decides to check it out anyway so we take him there. He follows us and we park infront of the neighbors house. The cop rolls up the driveway and just before he gets out of view I see him yell and pull out his gun.
He dissappears for a little bit and as we are waiting we see a guy jump the fence from the house in question and then run into a neighbors garage. He saw us watching him about 30 feet away.
When that happened I decided to dial 911 again to get backup, but just as that happened two more police cars showed up and I hollered at em to let em know the guy was hiding in that garage.
By now they have one gangster looking kid in custody and they roll into the garage tazers and guns drawn.
After some commotion (screaming) they pull this other guy out, frisk and then cuff him.
As the cops escort him past my buddy and I, this human waste tells me "Sorry bro, sorry bro". Yeah, sorry you got caught I was thinking
The cops then inform me that he was a convicted felon illegal alien, and the other one was a juvenile offender that had violated parole.
They then tell me that I need to tell them something that distinguishes the wheel as mine. Apparently the fact that it didntmatch the rest of his wheels and had the tire I descrbed to them wasnt enough legally speaking. Off the record the cops knew it was my wheel. The other kid apparently told the cop "I had nothng to do with it!" when they put him in the car.
The police then played some psychological games wth them and managed to get them to admit the wheel was not theirs and that it mysteriously just appeared on their car one morning
They got them to say that I could take it back (permission to take back my own property? crazy) So the cop and I rolled up the driveway and sure as **** it was my wheel. I then used their jack and tire iron to remove my wheel and take back my lug nuts. I was nicer than them though and left the car on a jack, not cinder blocks (maybe i should have)
The police said they didnt think they could charge them with wheel theft since they couldnt prove it but they did tell me that the illegal would be deported and the 17 year old will be processed as a parole violator.
This event pretty much made my year, it was the day good guys won for a change. I just mounted my wheel back on my car with wheel locks where it belongs.
The main police officer I was dealing with told me that in his 14 years of being a cop he had never seen a wheel theft end up like this. He said most of the time he would maybe get a description and that was it. I told him that I was super paranoid and when someone steals from me I take it very personally... I was bound to get it back.
Now the only thing I have to worry about is retaliation. I am taking measures to defend myself, hopefully they aren't stupid enough to try me twice.
Today I was driving my friends car with him in the passenger seat on a main street in this town I live in when I spot an Intrigue like mine waiting for the light to pull onto the road I was on. As I pass by I tell my friend "Watch, this is the mofo that stole my wheel" and amazingly, I spot some scummy "gangster" types iinside and, 3 factory chrome wheels and 1 non chrome wheel like mine.
I immediately pull a u turn and manuever behind them several cars back. I trail them to a house a few miles down the road where I see them pull in the driveway that wraps around the back of the house (a crappy looking rented house)
I called the cops... I didnt think they would do much but a cop showed up rght away (we were waiting down the street) and basically gave us the story that there was no way he could prove it was my wheel, yadd yadda
He decides to check it out anyway so we take him there. He follows us and we park infront of the neighbors house. The cop rolls up the driveway and just before he gets out of view I see him yell and pull out his gun.
He dissappears for a little bit and as we are waiting we see a guy jump the fence from the house in question and then run into a neighbors garage. He saw us watching him about 30 feet away.
When that happened I decided to dial 911 again to get backup, but just as that happened two more police cars showed up and I hollered at em to let em know the guy was hiding in that garage.
By now they have one gangster looking kid in custody and they roll into the garage tazers and guns drawn.
After some commotion (screaming) they pull this other guy out, frisk and then cuff him.
As the cops escort him past my buddy and I, this human waste tells me "Sorry bro, sorry bro". Yeah, sorry you got caught I was thinking
The cops then inform me that he was a convicted felon illegal alien, and the other one was a juvenile offender that had violated parole.
They then tell me that I need to tell them something that distinguishes the wheel as mine. Apparently the fact that it didntmatch the rest of his wheels and had the tire I descrbed to them wasnt enough legally speaking. Off the record the cops knew it was my wheel. The other kid apparently told the cop "I had nothng to do with it!" when they put him in the car.
The police then played some psychological games wth them and managed to get them to admit the wheel was not theirs and that it mysteriously just appeared on their car one morning
They got them to say that I could take it back (permission to take back my own property? crazy) So the cop and I rolled up the driveway and sure as **** it was my wheel. I then used their jack and tire iron to remove my wheel and take back my lug nuts. I was nicer than them though and left the car on a jack, not cinder blocks (maybe i should have)
The police said they didnt think they could charge them with wheel theft since they couldnt prove it but they did tell me that the illegal would be deported and the 17 year old will be processed as a parole violator.
This event pretty much made my year, it was the day good guys won for a change. I just mounted my wheel back on my car with wheel locks where it belongs.
The main police officer I was dealing with told me that in his 14 years of being a cop he had never seen a wheel theft end up like this. He said most of the time he would maybe get a description and that was it. I told him that I was super paranoid and when someone steals from me I take it very personally... I was bound to get it back.
Now the only thing I have to worry about is retaliation. I am taking measures to defend myself, hopefully they aren't stupid enough to try me twice.
shoulda jacked the car up by the lower body...."errr, never changed a tire before 
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