The $62,000 Safe!
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Doesn’t look like much right this is where I got my first jackpot finds out of this was behind one of my old houses. Just came across the picture the other day. Damn I wish I had saved more pictures! It took me three hours to break into this baby. Fortunatley for me it was a fire safe ( they have cement or ceremic in the walls) the cement enabled me to work my way in. Good thing I was not a stranger to hard work!
Safe 0 Glendon $62,000.00
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PUBLIC STORAGE Complaint
Public Storage Sold My Collectibles & A Part Of My Life – A collection of Personal Items, Historical Collectibles & 40 New Mannequins
Posted By: mymom on 1/9/2010
Location:
Oxnard and Sepulveda
Van Nuys, CA 91406
Phone: 8189025412 Print Email Link/Share
I know I was 2 months overdue. Dealing with my Mom’s Cancer, my Brother’s stroke, attending to their needs in a different state, my focus was just off course.
BY the time I made the call to them, they said I have 1hour to make payment, as it was schedule for auction.
The bottom line, the staff was not very helpful, as this unit was in my son’s name, who was not arround, and I had to get the correct phone #.
It wasn’t until after the auction, that I requested to speak with the DM, and he said he would give me 5mins to make the payment online. We tried, and by the time we did get thru, it showed they had SOLD my storage unit.
Because of the way this was handled, I desire to bring a major Lawsuit against them.
The value of my items was way over a $1Million, but they sold it for $2250.00. They sent me a card, stating they will send me a check for the difference and that I must cash it, otherwise it will be cancelled and donated to some charity.
They are not going to get away with this. What they did was wrong. They even refuse to allow me to sign the “Opposition of Lien” to sell.
This is the location on Oxnard and Sepulveda. Their staff is HORRIBLE.
Now, I’m legally going after them. I do believe I have a case.
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How Public Storage Rip You Off
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Posted By: MzKhana on 12/2/2009 Print Email Link/Share
I have been renting a unit from Public Storage for 2 years and all have been through is drama. I know sometimes if you make your payment after the 1st of the month they charge a late fee then a lein fee which can add up to a whole monthly just from fee. I notice that my monthly storage has gone up 3 to 4 times since I’ve rented this unit.
I look at the price in the state I’m in now and the rental price for the same storage is 3x lower. I had a incident just recently where my storage suppose to have been going into auction because of a late payment when I spoke with the Manager on Monday and on Tuesday the District Manager call me stating that the storage was going to be auction off if the payment wasn’t received that day. I told him that I spoke with the Manager and I will pay it on Wednesday, he continue to tell me how my credit abilities was no good and I said well I paid you guys for 2yrs and 2mths and I’m still payin g you now well over 2500.00 so that should tell you something like I have my things and I want my things. This District Manager was so rude no customer services skills and no communication with his employees. I found that Public Storage is a total rip off and the need to be sued for the charges they charge and overcharge you for renting from them. Also that $1.00 first month bill is a lie!!!! If anyone else had this happen to them please comment maybe we can put an end to them scamming and disrupting people lives.
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Following clues discovered in a small drug bust last week, Medford Area Drug and Gang Enforcement Team seized additional drugs and a handgun from a Medford storage unit Wednesday.
Investigators filed new charges related to this week’s find against Scott Bradley Wold, 35, of the 900 block of Olympic Avenue, who was still in jail after being arrested in February.
The interagency drug and gang team on Feb. 25 charged Wold and Jaymie Rachelle Unger, 40, of the same address, with possession and manufacture of Ecstasy, delivery and possession of Ecstasy within 1,000 feet of a school, and possession of marijuana. The pair, both still in jail Thursday, also were charged with first-degree child neglect at that time.
Olympic Avenue is near St. Mary’s School and Orchard Hill Elementary School in east Medford.
With information gained from those arrests, MADGE detectives got a search warrant for a storage unit Wold rented in a mini-storage complex in the 2700 block of Bullock Road, Medford, officials said in a news release. Searching that unit at about 2 p.m. Wednesday, they found 7.5 pounds of marijuana, a handgun and other synthetic drugs, officials said.
Wold now faces additional charges of possession, manufacture and distribution of marijuana, possession and distribution of synthetic drugs and being a felon in possession of a firearm. He is being held in the Jackson County Jail without bail on a probation violation.
Somerset police seize $48,000 in drugs from storage unit
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SOMERSET, MA — The Somerset police say they have arrested one man and are searching for two other drug suspects after confiscating about $48,000 worth of marijuana at a self-storage facility.
The police responded to a silent alarm Sunday night at the storage facility at 3129 County St. where, after stopping a car they arrested the passenger, Daryus Pierce, 31, of Fall River. Pierce was charged with possession of a class D substance, intent to distribute and conspiracy to violate drug laws.
The police say the driver of the car, Duane Franklin Glass, 31, of Georgia, sped off as the police were about to open a unit inside the storage facility. The police are searching for him as well as the owner of the car, Sarah E. Coelho, 26, of Dighton. Inside the storage unit, the police say, they found 15 storage bags with a pound of marijuana in each.
She can sue all she wants, she did not pay tough loss on this one. I heard a cat got a unit with 5 million worth or merchandise. Cali is the holy grail for storage auctions, they bring suitecases of cash!
Assault rifle seized in drug bust at storage unit
By MIKE HOOVER
Daily Record/Sunday News
Updated: 03/05/2010 11:15:20 PM EST
After responding to a tip, drug agents searched a storage unit in York recently where they arrested a man and a woman and discovered nearly $23,000 in drugs and an AK-47 assault rifle.
Hanayia Brown, 24, of the 200 block of South West Street, York, and Julius Monyoudaye, 25, of Trenton, N.J., were charged with possession of marijuana and cocaine. Monyoudaye was also charged with convicted felon not to possess a firearm.
The two are linked to drug trafficking in other areas of Pennsylvania, said York City Detective First Class Andrew Shaffer.
The storage unit was in the area of Route 30 and Roosevelt Avenue. Police confiscated $400 in cocaine and $22,400 in marijuana.
“We don’t like to see (assault rifles) on the street considering the amount of fire power and ammunition they can deliver. We would be outgunned,” Shaffer said.
The two stored the drugs and drug money in the storage unit, Shaffer said. They were in and out of the unit on a daily basis to get drugs to sell all over York County and to resupply, he said.
Shaffer declined to discuss further details, saying they are part of a pending federal investigation.
Monyoudaye remains in York County Prison on $125,000 bail, Brown on $75,000.
The two, arrested Feb. 27, were part of a drug sweep by city, Springettsbury Township and state police narcotics units during the past two weeks.
In all, 15 people were charged with various drug charges where police confiscated
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$1,800 in cocaine, $29,230 in marijuana, $600 in heroin, $4,383 in cash and three vehicles, including a 2004 Volvo, a 2007 Ford Escape and a 1996 Dodge Intrepid, in addition to the assault rifle.
Those charged include:
Terrell Harris, 21, of the 500 block of Wallace Street, York, was charged with possession of cocaine. And Kristopher Harris, 29, of Chicago, Ill., was charged with providing false identification to law enforcement. The two were arrested at a home in the 100 block of East Charles Lane where $400 in crack cocaine and $751 in cash were seized.
Matthew Fulton, 22, and Justin Fulton, 20, both of the 700 block of York Street, were arrested in their home. Matthew Fulton was charged with possession with intent to deliver marijuana, Justin Fulton with possession of marijuana. Police confiscated $4,480 in marijuana.
Manuel Diaz, 19, of the 300 block of Smyser Street, York, was charged with three counts of delivery of marijuana. He was arrested in the area of Lincoln Street and Elm Terrace where $200 in marijuana and $150 in cash were confiscated.
Julio Rivera-Baez, 42, of the 800 block of South Duke Street, York, was charged with possession with intent to deliver and delivery of heroin. He was arrested at his home where police seized $600 in heroin, $1,813 in cash and the Intrepid.
Gwendolyn Jones, 48, of the 700 block of Linden Avenue, York, was charged with delivery of cocaine. She was arrested in the 700 block of Linden Avenue where police seized $100 in crack cocaine.
Robert Webb Jr., of the 100 block of Fox Run Drive, York, was charged with two counts of delivery of cocaine. He was arrested in the area of the 200 block of Chestnut Street where police seized $400 in cocaine.
Jonathan Horton, 21, of the 600 block of Front Street, York, was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia. He was arrested inside his home where police seized $1,303 in cash.
A 17-year-old York boy was charged with possession with intent to deliver marijuana. He was arrested in a house in the 600 block of Front Street where police seized $1,250 in marijuana.
John Lefevre, 46, of the 1500 block of Memory Lane, York, was charged with possession with intent to deliver marijuana. Police seized $900 in marijuana, $366 in cash and the Volvo.
Two 16-year-old boys from York were arrested in the 700 block of Arsenal Road and charged with possession with intent to deliver cocaine. Police seized $500 in cocaine and the Escape.
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WHAT ABOUT NEW YORK!!!!!!! IS NEW YORK THE HOLY GRAIL TOO????????? TELL ME!!! I WAS IN THE STORAGE UNIT AUCTION BEFORE BUT IT WAS LESS THAN PART TIME.. AND THIS WAS AROUND 2006…SHIT IS HARD WORK BUT NOW I AM GOING TO BUY YOUR BOOK AND TAKE OVER THE INDUSTRY… O YEAH.. I STILL DIDNT TELL YOU THE DREAM.. WELL ILL GET THAT TOO YOU SOON..!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Abandoned storage unit holds ID-theft operation
By Deborah Sherman
9News
POSTED: 02/01/2009 12:30:00 AM MST
UPDATED: 02/05/2009 07:07:59 AM MST
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When Brandon Michael rolled up a storage-unit door in Denver on New Year’s Day to sort through the contents he had just purchased at an auction, the young man expected to find the usual items he could later sell on Craigslist or eBay: tools, laptops and furniture.
Instead, Michael discovered boxes, filing cabinets and trash bags full of hundreds of U.S. passports, birth certificates, driver’s licenses, Social Security cards and other documents — most stolen within the past two years.
He found St. Anthony Central Hospital records containing dates of birth, Social Security numbers and copies of the driver’s licenses of 150 patients who had been admitted into the emergency room or general surgery.
He found drug paraphernalia,
pills and the printer used to make counterfeit documents.
“That’s not right that somebody has all this stuff,” Michael said.
“It’s the mother lode of identity theft,” said Sgt. Ryan McGinty of the Denver police check fraud and forgery unit.
Michael’s discovery has prompted investigations by Denver police, Centura Health and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights.
Shocked and worried about having the documents and drugs, Michael packed it all up and drove straight to the Police Department. But he says the officer at the front desk told him police weren’t interested and said he should throw it in the trash.
“I told him I had driver’s licenses, fake IDs, drug paraphernalia and everything. And he wanted a citizen to be back out on the streets with all this stuff and go find a Dumpster for it,” Michael said.
Instead of trashing the evidence, Michael delivered it to 9News.
Storage-unit receipts and bank statements show the storage unit was rented by Paul Simmons, a 46-year-old Denver man who has been convicted in Florida for grand theft, burglary and dealing in stolen property.
Simmons says he has nothing to do with the documents found in his storage unit, including the multiple driver’s licenses with his picture on them and information belonging to other drivers.
“Have I been using them? What have I done illegally? Have I been arrested for it?” Simmons said.
A “personal violation”
Richard and Sheila Vieira teared up when shown their family’s birth certificates, passports and Social Security cards found in the storage unit.
“I never thought we’d see them again,” Sheila said.
Someone broke into the Vieiras’ home in early 2008, stealing jewelry and documents.
“It just brings back the whole situation, the whole event,” said Richard Vieira. “Everything we had to go through to replace all of it, the inconvenience of it; and then, why does someone think this is OK? It’s more than just taking the things. It’s the personal violation.”
Other people became victims of identity theft when they went to the emergency room at St. Anthony bruised from car accidents, sick from food poisoning or convulsing with seizures.
“My bank account was cleaned out,” said Timothy Cox, a single father in Denver. “It was devastating. Food money, mortgage money, they took it all.”
Cox’s bank account was drained two months after he was taken by ambulance to the emergency room at St. Anthony in October 2007 after a traffic accident. Someone had used his information to charge $9,000 at stores across California while he was at work in Denver. It took him months to clear up his accounts.
Cox says the last thing he was worried about after getting rear-ended in a traffic accident was giving St. Anthony his private information.
“You just expect the hospital to be like the bank. When you give them stuff, it’s safe,” Cox said. “You trust them to take care of your information, and I was hurt.”
Another patient who has been in and out of St. Anthony over the past year because of a chronic illness was surprised to see another man’s face on 15 copies of his driver’s license.
“I’ve never seen that guy in my life,” said Troy Harcourt of Golden. “It’s crazy. I’m totally speechless.”
After 9News alerted St. Anthony about the patient records found in the storage unit, the hospital investigated.
Within 48 hours, the hospital says it tracked down the employee who accessed the records.
“This particular associate was confronted with this and the associate immediately confessed to the fact that they indeed had taken this information outside of our organization,” said St. Anthony chief executive Peter Makowski. “We are very, very regretful that this ever took place.”
The hospital fired the female employee late last month. She had worked there for five years and passed a criminal-background check and compliance tests, according to St. Anthony.
Hospital officials said they don’t know how the stolen records ended up in the storage unit.
Records show that 150 patients were admitted to the hospital during a six-month period between 2007 and 2008.
The hospital is offering patients a free identity-theft protection service.
St. Anthony said it has contacted the Office for Civil Rights with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services about the breach. The department investigates Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Privacy Rule violations.
The hospital also said it’s increasing the number of patient medical-record system audits and educational efforts.
“Guy’s a professional”
Whoever was committing the fraud knew what they were doing, according to an identity-theft expert. That’s because the person only duplicated and forged people’s information if they had good credit and no history of criminal activity.
Bank records and receipts in Simmons’ name show criminal-background checks were conducted on people whose identities were stolen. If the victims had no criminal history, their identities were put in envelopes with handwriting saying: “Great! Nothing! Clean!”
On the other hand, if the victims had felony records, their identities were put in envelopes with handwriting saying: “No good! Big record!”
“The guy’s a professional,” said John Soma, professor of law at the University of Denver and executive director of the Privacy Foundation who reviewed all of the stolen and counterfeited documents. “Whoever’s doing this is using all of the tools he can to maximize the value of the personal identities he has stolen.”
Simmons owns the painting company Pro Painters in Lakewood. He worked for MPB Contractors in Aurora two years ago until he had a falling-out with the company.
MPB owner Jay Melvey was surprised when he saw his company’s name and his signature on forged checks found in Simmons’ unit.
“I’ve heard of it happening, I just never thought it would happen to me,” Melvey said. “It’s concerning that it’s that easy for someone to take a photocopy of a canceled check and make it look presentable.”
Melvey is trying to learn whether the checks ever cleared his bank.
Some of those fake checks for nearly $900 were made out to David Mazer of Englewood, whose driver’s license was stolen out of his car at a gym three years ago.
Mazer says he doesn’t know Simmons, has never worked for MPB Contractors and was surprised to see his driver’s license after all this time.
“This is pretty shocking. It’s pretty disturbing,” Mazer said. “It looks like someone’s been cashing fraudulent checks using my ID.”
Mazer’s name also appears on other forged checks made out to the company Excel Custom Drywall, which Mazer has neither heard of nor worked for.
When contacted by 9News, Denver police asked the station to turn over the evidence in the storage unit so that it could begin a criminal investigation, and the station complied.
The Police Department also began an internal investigation of the officer who allegedly turned down the documents when Brandon Michael brought them to the station.
“That’s something we have to look into,” said police spokesman Sonny Jackson. “What I do know at first blush is this is a very young officer, hasn’t even been on the department a year, he’s a brand-new officer and he made a mistake.”
Jackson says all officers are trained in the police academy how to recognize and handle identity theft.
The Denver Police Department participates in events at least twice a year that teach people how to protect their personal information. Police cadets also volunteer time to help residents shred documents that don’t belong in the trash.
Jackson says police are fortunate that Michael tried to bring the information forward to police.
“He’s a good citizen. He obviously realized what was going on and he took the appropriate measures,” Jackson said.
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Crack Cocaine: Danville’s drug of choice
Traci White twhite@registerbee.com
The corner of Bradley and White streets, an area where police observed many drug deals during their investigation, is seen on a rainy afternoon.
By MATT TOMSIC
Published: September 27, 2009
Updated: September 28, 2009
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PART ONE OF A THREE-PART SERIES
Crack cocaine breaks all social, economic and racial barriers as dealers supply addicts in affluent neighborhoods and impoverished housing projects.
For those that never see it, the drug doesn’t seem to exist.
But court documents reveal a part of Danville and Pittsylvania County that few realize: A world of confidential informants, undercover drug buys and video surveillance that most people only see on their favorite cop drama.
The records reveal something else: Crack cocaine is our area’s preferred drug.
And law enforcement is fighting it down the street and across the block.
Coke, snow, flake and blow
Cocaine is an addictive drug that can be snorted, injected or smoked. Crack is cocaine that has been processed from the powdered form to a rock crystal for smoking. “Crack” refers to the crackling sound produced by the rock when it’s heated.
Dr. Ruben Baler said crack and cocaine have the same effects, but using the drug in the crack form pro-duces a quicker high. Baler is a health science administrator for the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Crack makes the user feel euphoric and energetic, according to the NIDA’s Web site. It also increases mental alertness.
“The secondary effects from the feeling of euphoria can mask feeling tired,” Baler said. “We can say that some (brain) systems, especially those in higher decision-making and weighing risks, those areas are im-paired.”
A user’s thinking process becomes more emotional and instinctual, he said.
The drug can cause heart attacks, respiratory failure, strokes and seizures. It decreases appetite, leaving chronic users malnourished. Baler said large doses of the drug cause weird and violent behavior, including severe paranoia. Users also hear things while high.
A Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration study estimated that 6.63 percent of those between 18 and 25 in the country used cocaine in 2007. For the same demographic in Virginia, the study estimates that 7.99 percent used the drug that year.
‘A swath running …’
Our local supply comes from Mexico as the drug spreads north.
“It’s really a swath running from Mexico into border towns in Texas and then making its way into Atlanta, then the Carolinas and South Central Virginia,” said Tim Carden, the resident-agent-in-charge of the Drug Enforcement Agency’s Roanoke office.
His office covers the area southwest of Staunton and east of Bristol, including Danville and Pittsylvania County.
Carden said the drug comes to the area as powdered cocaine and is converted to crack as needed.
He has been with the DEA for 22 years after spending seven years as a police officer in Houston. He’s been undercover, buying ounces and kilograms of cocaine. His career has taken him from Jackson, Miss., to New Orleans to Arlington to Roanoke.
During the day, in public, anywhere
Carden said his office sees mostly small-scale cocaine sells in Danville and Pittsylvania County. Dealers usually sell ounces of the drug. But he said the DEA has investigated and arrested buyers trying to sell kilograms of cocaine.
“It’s a business for some people,” he said. “People know the smaller quantities you sell, the more profit you make.”
Carden said drug sales usually happen during the day, in public and in any part of a city.
“There is no typical scenario, but a lot of times it involves telephone calls, setting it up,” he said. “They would much rather meet you at the parking lot at McDonalds (than) in a dark alleyway.”
On May 29, a local investigator met with Gustavo Cardenas of Mebane, N.C., according to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Danville. The two men haggled outside a Kangaroo gas station on U.S. 29 in Pittsylvania County to discuss a cocaine buy of about 6.5 pounds, or 3 kilograms. But they didn’t reach an agreement until after a series of phone calls.
Cardenas agreed to sell about 4.5 pounds, or 2 kilograms, of cocaine for $66,000 to the undercover investigator. They met in the parking lot of Carter’s Convenient Store at 3103 W. Main St. on June 7.
Cardenas got to the convenience store at 11:07 a.m. He showed the undercover the two kilograms, and the investigator gave the arrest signal. Police charged Cardenas with possession and distribution of cocaine, according to a June 18 indictment. He pleaded guilty Aug. 17 and will be sentenced Nov. 17 in Danville’s U.S. District Court.
Hotels are another favorite place for dealers to sell large quantities of cocaine, Carden said.
William Edward Allen, 36, and another dealer in Pittsylvania County used rented hotel rooms to sell crack, according to a 2008 affidavit for a search warrant of Allen’s home at 2497 Afton Road. Investigators obtained records showing Allen rented many hotel rooms in Danville after a confidential informant told them where Allen sold the drugs.
A Pittsylvania County jury found Allen guilty of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, among other charges, on March 27. A circuit court judge sentenced him to 52 years.
Most dealers in Danville and Pittsylvania County sell smaller amounts of the drug, Carden said. Those sales are also in public and in the middle of the day.
Usually a buyer drives up to a dealer and pulls to the side of the road, according to criminal complaints and court documents the Register & Bee obtained. The buyer asks for drugs, the dealer gives a price and gets the crack from a nearby house or car. Sometimes the dealer gets into the car with the buyer and gives the buyer directions to another location.
When they arrive, the dealer gets the crack from the house or another person, and then the buyer takes the dealer back to their meeting place.
The dealers often don’t have crack on their person.
“That way, if there’s a street sweep, and the police roll up and grab people and pat them down, they don’t have it on them,” Carden said.
Carden also said dealers take over a certain area or neighborhood.
Undercover officers have bought drugs during the day on Bradley Road “just past the church,” White Street, Lee Street and Woodside Village Apartments since 2006, according to court documents.
Lt. Mike Mondul, a spokesman for the Danville Police Department, said undercover officers have bought drugs in bars, houses, cars and business’ parking lots. Dealers with cars arrange buys all over the city, while those with less mobility sell crack in their neighborhood.
Carden said places to buy crack aren’t always limited to the “bad” parts of town.
“I’ve bought dope in the best neighborhoods of New Orleans and Roanoke,” he said. “And I’ve bought dope in the worst neighborhoods in New Orleans and Roanoke.”
‘They know it hinders law enforcement’
Dealers’ tactics to avoid arrest have become increasingly sophisticated, Carden said.
Cardenas hid the 2 kilograms of cocaine in a Craftsman drill box.
Dealers also use different types of commercial containers with hidden compartments. Some drugs are hidden in floor polish containers, bug spray cans and shaving cream cans. And dealers make their own, Carden said.
Investigators found a Kibbles ‘n Bits can that had a hidden compartment, according to a 2008 search warrant of a house in Axton.
“The cans are pretty amazing,” he said. “Every time you go into a house to do a search warrant, you have to go through each one of those to see if those things are real or fake.”
The containers can hold as much as 6 ounces of crack. But Carden said police have a counter to the elusive hiding spots.
“About 99 percent of the time, they’re not going to beat a good narcotics dog,” he said.
Dealers and their customers also speak in code. Customers will ask for a “20” or “Two O,” referring to $20 worth of crack cocaine, according to court documents. But few dealers use the same codes, Carden said.
“Generally, it’s a code set up between customers and dealers,” he said. “If it’s in the midst of a normal conversation, it would make no sense at all.”
The conversation is out of context, which tips off police listening with audio surveillance.
Large-scale traffickers register cars and storage units in other peoples’ names. Many dealers are unem-ployed and couldn’t legally justify buying new cars or storage units, Carden said. So they funnel their money through friends and relatives, who agree to put purchases in their names.
“It’s an attempt to hide their assets,” Carden said.
William Edward Allen, the dealer found guilty by a Pittsylvania County jury, and his partner bought a burgundy minivan, a white Ford Expedition, a brown Ford Crown Victoria and a black Nissan Armada, according to a 2008 affidavit for a search warrant of Allen’s home. All of the vehicles were registered in other peoples’ names, including one of the dealer’s fathers.
Carden said dealers also pay family members to rent storage units, where they hide anything from cars to drugs to money.
Fred Vonzell Rodgers convinced his niece to rent a unit at Airpark Storage on South Boston Road in Danville. In May 2005, officers saw Rodgers drive to the storage unit in an Escalade, according to Danville Circuit Court records. Rodgers switched the Cadillac for a Taurus.
He came back to the unit a few days later and took a black bag out of the Taurus and put it in the Escalade. Police searched the storage unit and found $99,940 in the bag and a total of $182,460 in the Cadillac.
Rodgers was found guilty of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute and conspiracy to sell cocaine in January 2006. He is being held at Green Rock Correctional Center in Chatham until 2023, his projected release date.
Some dealers use video surveillance equipment, which is another common tactic, Carden said. They get the equipment from commercial stores like Radio Shack or Best Buy.
Investigators found a GE video surveillance monitor and two GE surveillance cameras in Julius Leon Carter’s home in Axton, according to a 2008 search warrant.
A federal judge sentenced Carter to 10 years in prison and five years of supervised release on Aug. 21 for conspiracy to distribute cocaine, among other charges.
“It is fairly common, even in rural areas, to have those types of things,” Carden said.
Dealers also go through about eight to 10 cell phone numbers in a year, Carden said.
“They’re just dropping phones,” he said. “They know it hinders law enforcement in their efforts to track these phones.”
Prepaid phones are also a favorite because they’re anonymous, Carden said.
Dealers insulate themselves in the places they sell crack and some use counter surveillance, Carden said. They know the narcotics officers and the police cars. And they fan out around a neighborhood to watch for officers.
“That’s their turf,” Carden said. “And it’s up to law enforcement to utilize enforcement techniques to defeat their attempts to discover who’s who.”
‘Big mistakes’
Crack cocaine can grab hold of anyone. The drug is not limited to one race or class. And once you’re hooked, the odds of arrest increase every day.
Thomas Everett “Tommy” Cox was president and co-owner of Cox & Goodridge Insurance in Danville and was once a candidate for the Danville School Board.
On Feb. 11, sheriff’s deputies found 4 ounces of cocaine in his car during a traffic stop on U.S. 58. The drugs had a value of $11,200. He pleaded guilty July 8 to charges of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute and transporting cocaine into Virginia.
On Aug. 25, Pittsylvania County Circuit Court Judge Charles J. Strauss sentenced him to four years and six months in prison. Struggling to speak and wiping away tears, Cox told the judge that drug use wrecked his life.
He apologized to his wife, mother and teenage children.
“I’ve made some big mistakes,” Cox said. “This being the biggest one.”
How to Garage Sale Items Found in an Abandoned Storage Unit.
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After buying an abandoned storage unit the most common way to make a profit is to have a garage sale, or ebay. Ebay has alot of extra things you need to do so in my opinion garage sale is the best way to sale these items.
After you won a bid at an abandoned storage unit auction, the best way to make your money back is to have a garage sale with items that were in the unit. You will need to go through the items, checking every little pocket and find all the valuables. Separate all the breakable, furniture, and clothes, and collectible in to different areas.
Display all items with a price, unless you are selling items like “All clothes 50 cents each”. Those you put in a separate area with a sign stating price. Make sure all glassware are on a sturdy table, people will bump into things. Have all the collectible by the area that you are taking money at. Put furniture out front, as well as all big toys and other large items. You would be amazed at the things people will buy, in the center of my driveway I put boxes that have “stuff” that I would consider useless for 25 cents apiece. This is where I make most of my money. Remember the saying ” One man’s junk is another man’s treasure” and how true is it.
3Advertise, advertise, advertise. Signs at the major corners, and intersections, newspapers, craigslist, and all other free forms of advertising you can do. Word of mouth, misplace, facebook friends…etc, etc…. Try keeping a crowd at your sale. People hardly stop at a sale there is no one at. I advertise free coffee for the early shoppers. This brings the “buyer’s” and dealers in. Never stay firm on your price….people love to “dicker”
Guns, body armor found in storage unit rented by man accused of threatening Birmingham officer
By Jeremy Gray — The Birmingham News
August 12, 2009, 5:01PM
ATF and Birmingham police gather outside of a home at 7232 2nd Ave. N. in Birmingham, Ala., Tues., Aug. 11, 2009 after discovering pipe bombs and weapons. (The Birmingham News/Bernard Troncale).
A search of a West Oxmoor Road storage unit rented by a man accused of threatening to kill Birmingham police officers revealed explosives as well as how-to-guides and equipment needed to make booby traps, police announced this evening.
A federal search warrant allowed officers to search an Attic Plus storage unit Tuesday with Birmingham police bomb-sniffing dogs, said Sgt. Johnny Williams Jr.
Investigators also found a gillie suit, which is a poncho-like camouflage suit used by military snipers, a painted bulletproof jacket, masks, gloves and hate literature against whites and law enforcement. At his home, investigators found hate literature including some tucked in the Bible by his bed.
Several rounds of ammunition were located in the storage unit as well. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives intends to prosecute Marlon Christopher Simmons, 35, federally on charges of illegally possessing the bombs, explosives and and illegal shotgun recovered during the search, police said.
Simmons, 35, on Monday told a 911 operator, “We’ve got a green light on all police officers,” authorities said Tuesday.
In his call Monday morning, Simmons vowed to kill every police officer he encountered until he found a female officer with whom he had argued on Sunday. Simmons reportedly called the officer by name.
When lawmen tracked him down at his east Birmingham home later that evening, they found high-powered rifles, a handgun and pipe bombs.
Simmons is charged with making a terrorist threat and violation of the state firearms act. He also faces federal gun and explosives charges, authorities said.
He is in the county jail, held without bond.
Marlon Christopher Simmons, 35, told the operator, “We’ve got a green light on all police officers,” authorities said Tuesday.
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Storage units are convenient, yet very costly. Before renting a unit, ask yourself the following questions:
How much are the contents worth?
Some people forget what is in their storage unit and pay for years for something that ends up being thrown away in the end. I knew someone who had a storage unit for 15 years and paid $100 a month to rent the storage unit. When she moved, there wasn’t time to go through the shed, so her kids had Good Will come and take all of it. Imagine paying around $18,000 just to end up having your stuff picked up and hauled away to give to charity. Many people put extra things in storage instead of cleaning out their clutter and putting the things that matter in their own homes, thus saving the cost of the storage unit. Assess value of items you want to store to see if it is worth the price to store them.
How long will it be in storage?
For college students, it may be worth it to find a storage unit for short-term storage instead of trying to haul everything home, especially if you live far away from where you attend school. Better yet, if the stuff isn’t worth the price you will pay for the couple of months, then just sell or donate the things and buy new stuff the next year with the money you save by not using a storage shed.
I knew a man who worked for a company who paid to put his things in storage while he worked overseas for seven years. When he got back to the United States, his things weren’t in very good condition because they were in humid climate all that time. He ended up throwing away most of the contents in the storage unit or donating it to charity. Luckily, he didn’t have to pay for the storage. It may have been better for him to sell it before he left, and save the money to buy new things when he returned.
Is there an alternate method of storage that will work?
Some people build bigger houses to put all their stuff in instead of cleaning out the clutter. I knew someone who built an addition to his three car garage to put the extra stuff he and his wife couldn’t fit in the house. While he was building, he broke his arm and was out of work for six weeks. Although it may be less money in the long run than renting a storage unit, that was a pretty high price to pay for clutter.
If we were to ask ourselves these questions before renting a storage unit, we would probably find that we can do without many of the things were would store. If they were important or valuable enough, we should keep them in our homes. We could sell our extra stuff and save ourselves tons of money in the long run.
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This morning I saw an interesting article in the New York Times about the rise of self-storage facilities in this country. Most people don’t need these. I have actually used a storage unit once, for three months to avoid carting my college stuff home for the summer, but we got the first three months at half price, so it wasn’t a bad deal. I’m also a member of a non-profit that has a storage unit for the equipment that is used once a year at our annual event. We have no office, so this solves the problem of storing stuff none of us want in our homes the other 364 days a year. I’m not saying the units don’t have a purpose, just that the way most American us them is a waste of money. It’s time to get rid of yours.
Stop Storing Stuff You Don’t Need or Want
According to the article, a full 15% of storage unit renters are storing stuff they “no longer need or want.” What? If you don’t like something enough to want it, and you don’t need it anymore, why don’t you sell it or throw it out? As the article pointed out, you’re more likely to buy something new when you do finally need a replacement. By storing it, you’re throwing away money rather than throwing away an object that has no value anymore.
Stop Storing Excess Stuff
Some people have so much stuff that it won’t fit in their homes and overflows into a storage unit. If you have that much stuff, you probably have stuff you can get rid of. Rather than pay hundreds of dollars for a storage unit, have a garage sale and make a couple hundred dollars. If it’s something you don’t value or don’t use often enough to keep in your home, it’s not something you need to own anymore. The argument that you paid for it so it has value, is bunk. That money’s gone. Don’t throw more money after it.
New Stuff is Cheaper Anyway
If you spend $200 a month to store an item originally valued at $800, you’ve exceeded its value after just four month. So, give it away, throw it away, or sell it. Then buy something new. It will probably be cheaper. Why not put that $200 a month into a savings account to go towards the purchase of replacement stuff when you need it? Then your money could actually make you money rather than being wasted.
Ignore the Emotional Attachment
I knew a woman who had a storage unit crammed with stuff that had belonged to her deceased father. Because it was his, she attached value to it. Except that she was keeping it in a storage unit rather than enjoying it, so had no true value. If you’re storing something that you have an emotional attachment to, but no actual use for, take a weekend to go through the stuff. Experience the memory, and then move on. I doubt your father would want you to spend $200 a month storing his old furniture (non-antique). He’d want you to save your money.
Don’t Store Other People’s Stuff
This is the most egregious example in the article. A man was storing stuff for his ex-fiancee, stuff that had once been stored in his garage, and then moved into a storage unit that she made him pay for. I also read a story in Dear Abby about someone who had been storing a friend’s stuff in her garage for six years, and now needed the room. She wondered if she was obligated to get a storage unit for it. If your friend, neighbor, relative, or ex hasn’t laid claim to their stuff in years, they probably don’t need it. Give them a call and tell them they have 10 days to remove their stuff, or it will be thrown out. If they don’t, get rid of it. You are under no obligation to pay to store the junk someone else dumped on you.
A Better Storage Option
If you have valuables that you must store off-site, get a safe deposit box. It’s much cheaper than the $50-200 a month that a storage unit would cost, and more secure. Other than that, if it can’t fit in your home, garage, or shed, get rid of it. I bet that you’ll never know it’s gone.
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