A Stolen Comics Story That Ends WELL? Nice To See!! 2 2

[fmaz]

Read this today in the NY Daily News... nice to see you can always count on the stupidity of the everyday criminal as the last great hope in recovering stolen comics... especially books that are stolen ONLY becuase delivery services fail to do their jobs.    Sheesh!

Still, a happy ending is a happy ending!!

Stolen Spider-Man #1 & X-Men #1 Recovered

 

[Action252Kid]

Very lucky that they were found!  Maybe the fact that CGC's new cases are so hard to crack open made it so this guy didn't even bother trying that and it led to him being caught!    I'm happy they caught the guy and the comics were unharmed!

[comicsyte95]

Glad the comics were recovered and are back in the owners hands and  the thief was caught.

[punksdropdirtysrh]

Best news I've heard all day! Congrats to the owner! 

[MustEatBrains]

That's great, and thanks for posting!   @blazingbob posted about this one when it occurred but it got buried some pages back.  Guy seems to have a bit of history with the law, surprised he was released pending considering he's already on parole per the link you provided.

Maybe him and Lex Ledger will share a cell.

 

 

 

 

Edited September 20, 2017 by MustEatBrains

[ThothAmon]

Article states that the alleged thief who was caught with the stolen property was out on parole. Meaning he has at least one felony conviction that put him in prison. No bail was set and he was released   Guess the judge must not like funny books. 

[chrisco37]

2 hours ago, ThothAmon said:

Article states that the alleged thief who was caught with the stolen property was out on parole. Meaning he has at least one felony conviction that put him in prison. No bail was set and he was released   Guess the judge must not like funny books. 

When the jails are overcrowded, they usually let non-violent offenders out on bond/pr.   I've seen it happen over and over and over with a family member.   It's mind-boggling how many chances some people get. 

[lizards2]

Part of what tripped him up:

“If you own something this rare, you're not going to try to sell it to any comic book store.”

[apollobuzz]

That's great news!

[BrianHoward]

So glad they got this guy!  We were contacted by him last week. He claimed to be selling these comics for his uncle, but something just didn't seem to make sense after talking to him for a few minutes. I did a quick search and found the notification of the stolen books on the boards. With my suspicions confirmed, I contacted the person who posted the thread and they passed me off to the victim. I also reached out to my buddy at NYPD and he put me in touch with a Det. who was working on the case. We tried to connect the perp with with the police and passed off all the info we had, he made some mistakes that made it easy to track his real identity. The Det. seemed very interested in pursuing this and the victim was just as adamant so I was confident they would get this guy. I'm not sure if our actions contributed to this or not, but clearly the collecting community played a role in making sure the right thing got done here. Good job boards!

[badback83]

Wow.  I'm glad the owner will get his books back!  

[CKB]

Wow.  It never goes this way.  Great to see the police interested and the community helping out and such a meaningful result.

 

[Artboy99]

2 hours ago, chrisco37 said:

When the jails are overcrowded, they usually let non-violent offenders out on bond/pr.   I've seen it happen over and over and over with a family member.   It's mind-boggling how many chances some people get. 

Overcrowded? Then build more. I say this guy has run out of his chances:

Gaynor, who has served four stints in prison — three for drug dealing and one for attempted kidnapping — was conditionally released to parole in May.

[FlyingDonut]

The bigger thing - that's a pretty generous 1.8 on the X-Men.

[chrisco37]

26 minutes ago, Artboy99 said:

I say this guy has run out of his chances:

I don't disagree.  Just telling you what I've seen. 

[Artboy99]

4 minutes ago, chrisco37 said:

I don't disagree.  Just telling you what I've seen. 

[mackenzie999]

6 minutes ago, chrisco37 said:

I don't disagree.  Just telling you what I've seen. 

It always blows my mind when you see some drunk driver on the news that has 7 previous DUI s...at what point to they just say "you're done, no more driving for you. Ever."

 

[kav]

Good thing they had stern words with him and let him go-that'll teach him not to steal again.

[thehumantorch]

Glad this POS was caught and the books recovered.  Hopefully he'll spend some time in jail and when other cons ask him what he did to get put in jail he'll have to say 'stole a couple comic books'.

[lizards2]

1 hour ago, Mackenzie999 said:

1 hour ago, chrisco37 said:

I don't disagree.  Just telling you what I've seen. 

It always blows my mind when you see some drunk driver on the news that has 7 previous DUI s...at what point to they just say "you're done, no more driving for you. Ever."

That often does very little - they continue to drive drunk even without a license.  Remember, criminals typically don't follow the law.