Helped the Police This Morning:chase:

[Richard@BackwoodsDetectors]

A friend of mine who is a Police Lt. wanted me to take a detector and find some items that had been taken in a robbery...
This morning about 10:30 I got started, in about 2 hours I had found everything.. I can't comment on specifics !!!
All the law enforcement there were very appreciative... now they could proceed... I think that this will give us some good publicity
locally.... Best to all, Richard

 

[plymouthian12]

i sure hope it will great job

 

[Elton]

n/t

 

[7centsworth]

Great job, I bet that was exciting.

 

[silversmith]

Cool...!!! They'll reward you next time they see you "J-walking":|

 

[tab-nabit]

WTG!

Added protection while you hunt. Did you find anything else interesting that wasn't being looked for?

 

[grumpyolman]

Did the same on the Green River Killer case. Was searching at the approach at Sea Tac and found a car key in the bushes. Left my probe stuck in the ground next to the item and called the detectives over. They photographed it from all angles and then put it into evidence. It was a key for the kind of vehicle a person of interest drove. It didn't prove to be the connection that sealed the case though. Still it was a helful thing to do
If you get asked to do that, as soon as you think you see anything that even remotely might be evidence, don't touch it and get one of the detectives to look at it. The other thing that is not obvious is search in all metal, You may not be told exactly what you are looking for and sometimes they don't know either. That's why they are "DETECTives". Just discover and report whenever you hit metal.
Wonder if it was in one of the detector closed parks you would still be told by the parks people to leave?

 

[Beale]

Good job Richard! That is the kind of word out we need, Beale

 

[Socalal]

Richard,

Fun isn't it ! There are approximately 300 members in our Prospectors Club here in Southern California. Twenty-seven of us belong to the Crime Scene Search Unit attached to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Dept. We get called out between 4 - 6 times every month, sometimes more, sometimes less. Like you, we can't be real specific about the case until it has gone through the Courts.

I just retired in December, so they call me and several other retiree detctorists mainly during the day (when our other members are at work and can't break away). Thursday of this week we got called out at 6:30 AM to help locate weapons and drugs on a drug raid at a house in LA County. A week or so ago we were about 20 miles from that location, on an officer involved shooting at 3:00 in the morning to locate expended cartridges fro both the officer's and the suspects weapons (and we found them too).

Something new all the time. Keep it up, you'll love it and you'll be helping to erase some of those not-so-good stories we read about every so often when some detectorist does something he or she shouldn't have.

--- Al

 

[jim tn]

n/t

 

[Ron from Michigan]

Cool!

 

[dandee]

Addaboy!! What a feeling that must be and helping the community too, Great job.

 

[RickIowa2009]

Good publicity

 

[Richard@BackwoodsDetectors]

trial is over, I will let ya end on what was recovered... Didn't find anything else... and hopefully I'll get a friendly warning if I get stopped... Thanks For all the kind words.. Richard