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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;usc96, post: 2569146, member: 25676&quot;]I had a relative who was a heavy drug user. She use to pawn everything in sight, and I would have to go pay to get the family jewelry items back, including one time where I had to threaten litigation on my law firm letterhead. They knew she was a problem because she and her druggie husband once got arrested because they sold the pawn shop $18,000 worth of jewelry that the husband stole from an Indian family staying at a hotel he formerly worked for as the night check in clerk (he claimed the jewelry was abandoned goods he found in the lost and found - bull). It think the pawn shop paid them $1,000.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, this relative passed away and my wife asked a cop friend to run a check to see if there were any recently pawned items in this relative&#039;s name so we could recover them. Turns out she pawned or sold a half set of sterling silverware from her mother, but too long ago for us to recover. I remember the mother complaining that someone stole the silver a year ago, but she didn&#039;t report it to the police, probably because she didn&#039;t want her daughter arrested. I don&#039;t know what a family set of silver is worth, but I bet the pawn shop paid ten cents on the dollar, if that much.</p><p><br /></p><p>The point is, this pawn shop knew this person was a crook, but took advantage anyway. I have know love for pawn shops, and suspect most are nothing more than fencing operations for thieves.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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