Stolen tool and electronics

[Inkncraig]

Someone walked into my garage and walked away with my leatherman wave, my Oakleys and my iPod. Took it right out of my truck in broad daylight.
I am most pissed about leatherman.
But I am going to call all pawnshops in my area. If I actually see the items there or my description fits "what someone just brought in"
Do I have to have a police report filed?
What's my end play
Thanks !

 

[KSwiss]

You'll need to file a police report. Also talk with your auto and home insurance.

Did you write down or keep the serial numbers?

 

[Danglerb]

Yup, first thing file a police report. I would not waste my time looking, fair chance everything has changed hands a few times by now.

 

[RCStocker]

Things will have change hands that is for sure but they still show up.
I owned an antique mall for years. When people came in to sell thier items I required a photo ID and they had to sign a statment that the items were theirs to sell. Half walked out. I lost a lot out on a lot of good things. The detectives did come in an take some stolen items several times. They were not mine but my shop renters.

Construction tools are stollen by the thousands. My son had over a hundred thousand dollars worth of tools stolen through the years. It all ends up at the swap meets. Here in California there are sellers who have a hundred power tools and the only way you get that many is to steal them. I have recovered several of mine that had my name on them.
I know the detectives that roam the huge swap meet and they cuffed and stuffed the Mexican.

The insurance will require a poliece statment.

 

[Conductor562]

I doubt your leatherman or your shades have serial numbers. Report the iPod to Apple. They should be able to tell you if/when it's synced to an iTunes account and who's account it is.

 

[Inkncraig]

Thanks for the advice guys. I didn't have any serial numbers. Funny thing is, I just started to write down the serial #'s on my tools and I thought, I should write down the iPod too. Didn't get around to it. The next day it was gone.

 

[truckdriver]

Hope you have better luck than I did. I live one block from the police station and had my SO wrenches that were in a kit bag stolen out of my truck(cab). I had the standard 1/4-11/4 plus my 0 offsets in the bag. I guess the bag just made it easier to steal. Provided detailed description of wrenches with markings and the fact that the bag had a cut by the 11/16 and the ties were broken. Police said that they had an idea who it was but that they had left town. They hit the entire town in 4 nights and likely headed to Dallas to sell everything. That was over a year ago.