[BogeyBoy]

I don't think it is unusual for something to be "borrowed" from one house to be installed on another. So for someone to go to a new house and remove something would not seem strange to a worker.

Here's an example: When our first house was being built here I drove by one day to check the progress. Only one worker was there and he was tinkering with the carriage light out front. I asked what he was doing and he said fixing the light. Drove by a half hour later and he - and the light - were gone. Just by chance I saw him at another house in the neighborhood installing "my" light. Of course by the time we closed all lights were in place, but who knows if he was told to go get that light to replace a broken/missing light or if he took it upon himself and my contractor had to go and procure another when he drove up and mine was gone.

So someone wheeling out a stove could simply state, "I'm taking it down to lot xxx-xx to replace a broken one because they are closing tomorrow." Then he drives it right on out of TV.

[2BNTV]

Just for a little humor.

A woman was coming home one day and saw a person tying to come through double doors in an old neighborhood type home. As she was helping him keeping the door open so he could get out, As she was doing this, she was saying to herself, that television looks a lot like mine. She then went upstairs and found her television missing.

This is a true story. My point is that on new construction sites, it's much easier to steal something as one does not know if they are delivering and or replacing an appliance until it is gone for good.

I agree the store owner should have been penalized for receiving solen property. I would tend to think he knew it was stolen because he paid $150 for a brand new $500 stove.

As they say on sportscenter, "come on man!!!!!!!!

[Cantwaittoarrive]

Originally Posted by Roaddog53

And you believe that some guy goes to a house with a dolly, gets out of his truck, opens the door with a dolly, disconnects the stove, loads it on the dolly, than takes it to his truck...pickup, van, and "lifts" it from the dolly onto the bed of the truck.. Lmao. Maybe he just carried it on his back. Or.. He had a forklift. Don't pay attention to what they tell you in the media, who can not get any story straight, OR what the cop says. There is more to this story.
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Actually many times I have picked up a stove, washer or dryer with straps all by my little old lonesome and carried it on my back to a bed of a pickup or carried it into a house. A dolly can also make it easy. I'm 53 if I can do it a younger man should easily be able too

[justjim]

Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter

Isn't there a charge for receiving stolen property??

Appliance store is in Marion County. Sumter county would have no jurisdiction but with this information Marion County or Bellview might still charge the appliance store owner.

[senior citizen]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

Here is an old thread on the same kind of theft.
Three arrested in Villages burglaries.

Posted yesterday 2/4/2013 by Gracie.

I read it this morning and replied this morning.

All i said was that they weren't too smart to not realize they would be caught.

[batman911]

Originally Posted by justjim

Appliance store is in Marion County. Sumter county would have no jurisdiction but with this information Marion County or Bellview might still charge the appliance store owner.

They will need to prove the person at the store who purchased the stolen appliances knew that they were stolen. That may be hard to prove.

[graciegirl]

What is the name again? The appliance store?

Putting them on MY avoid list.I am like Chris. Who in their right minds wouldn't know they were hot?????

[Bogie Shooter]

Getting bad on TOTV when you have to explain why you posted!

[Bill-n-Brillo]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

What is the name again? The appliance store? ......

From KeepingItReal's initial post:

"The signal led them to Frederick's Appliances in Belleview, where the owner told detectives he had purchased a number of $500 stoves for $150 each from a man later identified as Strawder."

Bill

[paulandjean]

Originally Posted by batman911

They will need to prove the person at the store who purchased the stolen appliances knew that they were stolen. That may be hard to prove.

Then they would be charged with, "Being in possession of stolen equipment.

[Cantwaittoarrive]

Originally Posted by batman911

They will need to prove the person at the store who purchased the stolen appliances knew that they were stolen. That may be hard to prove.

Originally Posted by graciegirl

What is the name again? The appliance store?

Putting them on MY avoid list.I am like Chris. Who in their right minds wouldn't know they were hot?????

I use to own an overstock business, we would buy overstock merchandise from the original manufacuter by the truckload for 10 to 20 percent of the wholesale price and then turn around and sell to stores for less money than they could buy wholesale so I can see where a store owner would not think it all that unusual for someone offering brand new $500 stoves for $150