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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bud1 Wilson, post: 3276416, member: 93766&quot;]I once sat in a tavern on a day off and watched a patron pay for a few beers with silver dollars...The bartender was probably the only person in the tavern that knew I was a Police Officer. He looked at me and handed me two silver dollars, I examined them and saw that they were close to almost mint....I approached the patron and asked him how it was that he had came by the coins...He told me that he had gotten them from a guy in the hotel and took me to the guys room. I knocked on the door and identified myself, I inquired as to how he had came by the coins, he told me he had bought them from ( Persons name )....I knew the guy, he was a City Cop.</p><p>The guy in the hotel handed over several books filled with coins and I gave him a written receipt for them and took them into HQ.</p><p>The Department had received a report from the City Police Records Bureau that the Coins had been stolen some time in the past from inside the Records Bureau, and I was aware of this. The Detective Bureau had determined that a janitor had stolen the coins and he was fired. The Police Department refused to accept that the City Police Officer had stolen the recovered coins and dropped the issue...I took the original owner of the coin set to an Attorney, who in turn took statements from the individual in the hotel who had purchased the coins from the Police Officer and the individual who had been spending the coins in the tavern....The original owner wanted collectors value of the coins and the coins that were missing from his collection...The Attorney filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Original owner and for the individual who had bought the coins from the Officer.....The City&#039;s insurance company paid off and dropped the City....The City Police Officer was forced to retire....The janitor was reinstated and paid a undisclosed amount by the City, because the Attorney reached out to him and included him in the lawsuit.</p><p>The City Cop had been working out of the Records Bureau and noticed that the ledger used as a chain of custody had not been signed&nbsp; when the coin sets had been returned from the DA&#039;s Office to the Records Bureau after they had been recovered from a previous burglary. The City Cop was smart enough to know that when the coins were returned and no-one signed for them that it would look like they had not been returned from the DA&#039;s Office and were still in the custody of the District Attorney...&nbsp; Problem was that one of the Officers in the Records Bureau remembered taking custody of the valuable coins because he and the Assistant DA had talked about how nice the set was because it was complete. </p><p>I was not too popular with the Command in the Department for a few years...because I had assisted three people recover their loss and one his job...A few years later the Chief and his Deputy Chief were forced out because they operated in the gray area...The Cop who stole the set was never charge and allowed to get his retirement..</p><p>Not one of my best investigations...but I could look at myself in the mirror and feel better than I would have if I had done nothing. </p><p>Bud helped</p><p>[ATTACH]865262[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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