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Mark Beardsley

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Friday, April 8. 2011

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Was it theft by taking or the result of a foreclosure — or some of both?

The Commerce Police Department responded to a theft report at an Old Harden Orchard Road address where a 44-year-old white female explained that she and her husband, having lost the house to foreclosure, had moved away. She had come back, however, to make sure items left in a storage building on the property were still there.

Upon arrival, she told the police, she saw the storage building door open and noticed that a picnic table by the house was missing. Pointing to the next-door neighbor’s house, she said, “There is my trampoline right there,” the incident report said.

The officer talked to the neighbor, who explained that when the “foreclosure people” came to the site to install new locks, they gave him the trampoline because they were going to dispose of it anyway. He also said that they gave him a lawn mower, and he produced a business card of the company.

The neighbor also offered to give both items back. Questioned about others visiting the site, the man said he’d seen a red truck leave the premises twice with items in the bed, but thought nothing of it.

The investigating officers deduced that the matter was a civil issue and advised the woman and her husband to contact the mortgage holder for clarification as to who owned the property.

The couple said the neighbor could keep the trampoline, but they wanted the mower back. The police asked the man to bring it down to the police station until the former owners could retrieve it.

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#1 Tabitha Kitchens on 04/11/11 at 07:20 AM [Reply]

I'm pretty sure that once you're foreclosed on and you vacate the property, everything you leave behind belongs to the bank. I'm not sure why they would even expect it to just sit tight until they were ready to retrieve it.

I doubt they will get very far in a legal battle.

#2 jeff monk on 04/15/11 at 12:29 AM [Reply]

i know for a fact, the folks who took this man and womens stuff was in the wrong.the land which the moblie home sits own dont belong to the bank,but the couple.the folks who took the couples things are well known own old harden orchard rd ,as bad folks.its only a matter of time before something really bad happens to other good people,cause the commerce police sit around and do nothing to the cooks.and it will be a backlass to the good citizens of commerce? let you or i go into someones home and take there thing's?no matter what the reason is,you and i will go to jail,it is theft period.i feel bad for anyone who is having to lose there home without your so called neighbours sticking it to you.so to the rest of us look at your neighbours next to you and say to your self could you do the same to them or have the same happen to you if hard times come to you and your family?THINK ABOUT IT....

#3 Natalia on 04/21/11 at 12:24 AM [Reply]

"The police asked the man to bring it down to the police station until the former owners could retrieve it."

If while you were reading this you asked yourself, "well why didn't the couple go ahead and take the lawn mower with them while they were still there on the property?" The answer is because the Commerce police officer refused to do anything about this matter or even bother to look into it. After the officer left, the couple had to go see some of the officer's "superiors", and that is where the order to "ask the man to bring it to the Commerce Police Station until the former owners could retrieve it" came from.

#4 Anonymous on 04/28/11 at 11:31 PM [Reply]

It's a civil matter and the CPD can't order anyone to do anything in a civil matter. They can ask him to surrender the item and bring it to the police department but he doesn't have to without a judge's order. Jeff Monk I would be embarrassed to post one sentence written like that much less a paragraph.
Commerce News, YOU need an editor! No matter how popular "had moved away" and "she had come back" sounds it is not proper and does not sound professional. How about "moved away" or "she came back." We don't care about the urban darker dialect way of speaking, don't put it in our paper.

#4.1 Natalia on 06/11/11 at 03:57 AM [Reply]

"don't put it in our paper"

Who do you think you are? You own this paper and the city and your name is Anonymous? Oh...okay, right. Usually people put others down when they feel inferior about a little something that didn't grow, oops I mean go, quite right in their lives.

#5 Natalia on 06/11/11 at 03:50 AM [Reply]

Anonymous; they did have a judges order(that's who I was referring to when I said a "superior"). Thank you!

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