Sherri!
Thanks for looking into this further. The theft happened a long time ago, so the time frame isn't going to be completely accurate. The initial incident occurred in the 2000/2001 time frames, prior to my son's birth and before I applied for LAPD. My father, wife Veronica (girlfriend then) and I all went to the FPD. I don't recall if a report was taken at that point or not. I did recall the detective at the time advising there wasn’t much the PD could do about it and to work with the bank. We had no idea how big this theft actually was; we only knew if happened when the first stolen check came through which was for OfficeMax (by 24 hour fitness) and included a fake DL#. The detective ran the DL# on the check but said it wasn't a good lead or something to that effect. I believe I needed a police report to clear up questions during the background process …show more content…
I came back a few years later to get another copy of the report for the collection agencies and credit bureaus as additional collections still appeared years later. I also came in last year (2015) to get another copy, but was told the PD erased the original files when you guys went digital; so I filed a new report for the same theft as additional items appeared on my credit report.
The original theft consisted of a stolen box of several books of checks, so the magnitude of the ordeal was massive and never ending. As we discussed, I had no idea how many checks were written until the check was used and made its way onto my credit report as a negative item. (Such as the Round Table Pizza) I had to make the decision to either pay it to get it removed (which if I did, prompted the other collectors to come after because I'm
Thanks for looking into this further. The theft happened a long time ago, so the time frame isn't going to be completely accurate. The initial incident occurred in the 2000/2001 time frames, prior to my son's birth and before I applied for LAPD. My father, wife Veronica (girlfriend then) and I all went to the FPD. I don't recall if a report was taken at that point or not. I did recall the detective at the time advising there wasn’t much the PD could do about it and to work with the bank. We had no idea how big this theft actually was; we only knew if happened when the first stolen check came through which was for OfficeMax (by 24 hour fitness) and included a fake DL#. The detective ran the DL# on the check but said it wasn't a good lead or something to that effect. I believe I needed a police report to clear up questions during the background process …show more content…
I came back a few years later to get another copy of the report for the collection agencies and credit bureaus as additional collections still appeared years later. I also came in last year (2015) to get another copy, but was told the PD erased the original files when you guys went digital; so I filed a new report for the same theft as additional items appeared on my credit report.
The original theft consisted of a stolen box of several books of checks, so the magnitude of the ordeal was massive and never ending. As we discussed, I had no idea how many checks were written until the check was used and made its way onto my credit report as a negative item. (Such as the Round Table Pizza) I had to make the decision to either pay it to get it removed (which if I did, prompted the other collectors to come after because I'm