Stolen goods reporting. Please post any serial numbers and descriptions, or rewards for stolen goods here. Read more to understand my goal.

With the rise in drug activity in the Everett, Washington area, comes an enormous rise in theft as well.

There was a time when the majority of stolen goods went to the many pawn shops and the police watched them close enough to find the thief, and sometimes recover the goods.

In this day and age even the criminals have caught on to that arrangement, and selling stolen goods had been redirected to craigslist instead. Local law enforcement had no choice but to begin scanning craigslist as well .

The scanning of craigslist had surely provided some evidence leading to arrest and conviction. The only real drawback to that is that with each arrest another criminal gains an education.

Private sales have become the preferred method of fencing stolen goods. Often to a friend with some money, or a drug dealer that will offer half of what a pawn shop will.

Most recently Jeremy Mayfield, expelled nascar driver, was arrested for possessing both 1.5 grams of meth, and a substantial amount of property reported stolen from nearby businesses.

Did Jeremy Mayfield knowingly purchase stolen goods? He claims his innocence, by way of his lawyer. I can assure you that very few people that know they are buying stolen goods would actually admitt the knowledge of such a thing.

So how can you protect yourself, and how can listing your stolen property be helpful to you.  I see a few ways this data base could ve useful, and I would like to use the following words to explain how ..

1.)  Ignorance is bliss, yet it does not excuse one from the laws. If you do list your stolen goods by description and a potential buyer sees that your goods were stolen, they can no longer claim they were un aware they were purchasing stolen goods. This will prevent the purchase of the goods and as the ability to receive cash for stolen goods fades, the action of stealing the goods will be less rewarding for the thieves.

2.) You have an option of offering a purchase reward for your items. This would give the potential buyer permission to buy your items for a value you determine, therefor allowing you to actually get your item back. You could require a receipt, but I think that might prevent a sale as a crook would be leary of self incrimination. 

3.) Potential buyers would have a place they can check to see if something is stolen. Their ip address would be recorded with the time and date of their inquiry. They could then print the page and use that as reasonable proof that they made an honest effort to make sure they bought honest goods with honest intentions.

4.) There will be people that look things up, see the stolen status, and use that as a reason not to pay what is being asked for it. Again, for this instance the ip address, date and time will be recorded and could be a powerful tool in not only convicting the thief, but also convicting the purchaser. Lets face it. Even stolen good boil down to supply and demand . If we can prevent people from buying our stolen items, they will simply look a lot less appealing to the people that steal.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO KEEP YOUR NAME A SECRET? SIMPLY E-MAIL ME THE DETAILS OF YOUR MISSING GOODS , ALONG WITH YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION AND I WILL MEDIATE THE ENTIRE PROCESS FOR YOU.

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