Stolen Metal Detector - Middle Tennessee - Please Help

[csa]

I have never posted here before and only found this forum today, but I am asking for everyones help. Over the Thankgsgiving holiday, I had a T2 stolen from my truck in Manchester TN along with a pair of blue Jimmy Sierra headphones. I desperately want my machine back! To all you hunters in the Southern middle Tennessee area (Manchester, Tullahoma, Murfreesboro, Shelbyville, Winchester, Triune, etc), please be on the lookout for my machine. I am offering a $150 cash reward for its return and no questions will be asked!!!! I just want my machine back. Please help a longtime fellow detectorist. If you were to see anyone out using a T2 with blue headphones, please stop and ask them about it and the reward could be yours. I'm sure it will end up in some innocent or unsuspecting persons hands. Any information will be more than appreciated and kept confidential. Contact me at e-mc2@charter.net

Respectfully,

Chris Armstrong

 

[IndianaSmith]

I hope someone catches the scumbags who stold it, I hate theives!! :veryangry: I hope is someone who will take them into the woods & teach them an "old school" lesson about stealing.
Keep an eye on Ebay, check local pawn shops. I hope you have serial #'s, if not, I'd be trying to get them for proof of ID, and hope you filed a police report. I hope you get it back!

Smitty

 

[Elton]

It would be a while before a good lesson was forgotten.

 

[Brainwasher]

Chris, it takes a real rat weasel to do something like that. It is likely someone is going to pawn it for Christmas money. If you have the serial number, definitely report it to the police. Ask them to put the serial number into the NCIC. They will know exactly what that is. Pawn shops are required to hand over pawn tickets to local law enforcement which they usually input serial numbers into a local data base. Once the property is reported stolen, they can try to match your serial number with a pawn ticket. Once they have that, they can recover your detector from the pawn shop. Pawn shops usually carry insurance for such losses and are usually surprisingly cooperative with law enforcement. Also the NCIC is a natonal database, so if it turns up in a raid somewhere else, they know who to give it back to. If you sent in a warranty card, the company can probably help you get the serial number, or if you bought it off someone else, they can probably get with the company to get the serial number for you if they did a warranty card. Without a serial number, the police won't be able to do much to help you. Anyone else reading this, please take note and just jot your serial number down somewhere in case this happens to you. Actaully, you should do this with all your property and just put it in a safe place. There are people out there who will steal the stuff you worked very hard to get, and won't care a bit about it. Without the serial numbers it is extremely difficult to recover property, and even more difficult to prove it was yours to start with. Hope this helps. jeff