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Family looking for return of stolen property
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August 22, 2012 |
Most people here take pride in the fact that
this is a community of good neighbors, one in
which we look out for one another. This may be
one of the last bastions on earth where people
who've lived here for awhile carry keys to their
front door, but don't remember why. They seldom
use them.
For just that reason, it tends to hurt when
trust is betrayed, and a family in Naples,
robbed of the tools they need to prepare for
winter, knows that feeling.
"I am in need of people to keep an eye out for
people trying to sell stuff that was stolen from
our house," Jenny Ennis, who lives in the Naples
area with her hard-working family, wrote on
Facebook today. "This saddens me, because I have
always felt safe here and now not so much!"
According to the Boundary County Sheriff's
Office, Jenny and her family aren't the only
ones to fall victim, there have been several
such thefts.
Jenny can't say exactly when their belongings
were taken; her husband only noticed today when
he went out to get firewood and discovered his
chainsaw gone. It was there two weeks ago when
he used it to get ready for winter.
They did go camping last weekend, and the theft
may have happened then; but they can't be sure.
"We've never felt the need to keep track of our
valuables until now," she said.
If you follow the sheriff's log, theft and
malicious injury to property complaints always
spike in the spring and summer, and it's most
often exuberant teens who prove guilty, often
screaming and yelling with a twisted ear under
the hand of a parent who noticed something amiss
and is marching them to take responsibility and
atone in a way they'll never forget.
But sometimes it's not local kids.
Sheriff Greg Sprungl says "don't panic!"
Common sense works wonders.
"If you're going to be away for a few days, call
us to keep an eye out for you ... we're happy to
do it," he said. "Keep valuables out of sight,
even if it's just locking them in a shed or
covering them with a tarp or a blanket; don't be
a target."
Jenny Ennis and her family didn't do anything
wrong except trust this place they call home.
They're asking anyone who may have seen anything
or anyone who may know something to help.
The items to be on the lookout for are a Stihl
036 chainsaw, a Stihl FS55 weedeater, an Adams
golf driver, Diable steel shaft woods 1, 3 and
5, Ram woods 1, 3 and five and a fly fishing
rod.
If you see or know anything, please call the
sheriff's office, (208) 267-3151, Extension 0.
Mr. Ennis needs his saw to keep his family warm
this winter. |
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