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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kharmon, post: 766680, member: 22036&quot;]Sorry to hear that your car was broken into.&nbsp; Being a former police officer I can tell you from experience that it is VERY rare to find usable fingerprints on the surfaces of a vehicle.&nbsp; The outside, no matter how meticulously washed the car is, has dust on it which will effect the ridge patterns of the print.&nbsp; Usually there&#039;s so much dust that it&#039;s impossible to pick up enough ridge pattern in a finger print to use it for identification.&nbsp; The inside of a car is not much better unless you have wood grain trim, otherwise there&#039;s not many smooth surfaces on the interior of a car.&nbsp; One thing that might work is a glue gun to fume for the prints but that usually does more damage to the vehicle than the valuables taken and I have never seen that technique used on a vehicle except when it involved a homicide scene.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I refuse to criticize you for leaving those items in the vehicle as it sounds like you took great measures to conceal the items that were taken.&nbsp; It&#039;s the folks that leave their family heirlooms on the front seat for God and everybody to see it that drove me nutty when they were surprised that their car got broken into. Hopefully, with some luck the police in your area will be able to recover your missing case and other items.&nbsp; Check with the detective that has your case and the other neighbors within a few blocks of where you live to see if there was additional burglaries.&nbsp; It&#039;s been my experience that if there&#039;s one car broken into in your area, there was likely more on the same block or the next couple of blocks over.&nbsp; It&#039;s rare that car burglars will hit one car and just leave the area unless they were spooked out of the area by approaching cars or an unexpected neighbor leaving their house.&nbsp; If there were other items taken in your area the police will have a lot better luck in finding a large group of items than one individual item.</p><p><br /></p><p>Again, sorry it happened to you but that is, unfortunately, the world we live in.</p><p><br /></p><p>KHarmon[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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