Doing the right thing: (Good deed rewarded)

[Phil C]

Dean unfortunately you are correct. Unless guys like George do the right thing it may never surface. A little more to my story. the neighbor two house down told me it was a good chance it was his grandson. It seems that his grandson got out of prison the day before my gun disappeared. The grandfather told me he was a drug addict and a thief, as much as it pained him to tell me this.
Long story short the detective assigned to the case had put this guy in prison after a physical altercation, so he took an extra interest in this theft.
I received a call a few weeks ago the suspect in back in prison for parole violations, of course no gun recovered and he would not admit to taking it. Here is the interesting things I learned from the detective.
Most of these drug addicts have $500 a day drug habits with no job. Only a few ways to get this money and stealing guns especially is the easiest. Many stand out by Wal-Mart and approach guys asking if they want to buy some guns at a price that is hard to pass up. Once the guns are purchased rarely do they surface. Pawn shops are supposed to report all gun purchases. There are a number of crooks in the Pawn business here and what they will do is report the S/N only placing one number out of order. This way if they get busted they claim it is a clerical error, and of course the SN never pops up as stolen.
Once again George thanks for being an honest guy.