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Originally Posted by NJblue

Unfortunately, she probably had to buy it back from the pawn shop. Unlike other states, apparently in Florida, pawn shops own the stolen merchandise as long as they have no apparent reason to believe that it is stolen. A neighbor had his golf clubs stolen. A week later the police found them in an Ocala pawn shop, but he had to buy them back.

Originally Posted by ajbrown

This is exactly right. I went through this about 3 years ago when my golf clubs were stolen from Mallory. They were found in Ft Myers and I had to pay to get back the ones recovered. In the end the thief ended up paying me back as part of his plea-sentence.

Thank you for educating me.