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Dozens Unwittingly Purchase Stolen Goods At Garage Sales

BEND, OR -- Bend Police are looking for people who may have inadvertently purchased stolen items from a garage sale at a local storage facility.  According to Lt. Clint Burleigh, a 29-year old Bend man is suspected of at least 32 car break-ins.  Lt. Burleigh tells KBND the man kept the stolen property at Clark’s Storage on Southeast 9th in Bend, and sold items to unsuspected members of the public. "You have community members going out and just going garage sale-ing not knowing these items are stolen and they’ve purchased them. Our concern is, we want to make sure if the public did go to a garage sale at this location that they would give us a call, so we can add them to the investigation and try and recover the property for the victims."

 

He says the people who bought the items are also victims, "Because they spent money on an item and that item was stolen.  The flip side is, nobody wants to be in possession of property that could be stolen. We want to educate the community, to make sure they know the stuff coming out of that storage facility most likely was stolen from someone else."
 
The suspect’s name is being withheld, and the investigation is ongoing. Anyone who may have purchased property from a garage sale in front of container #25 of Clark’s Storage, between January and early April, is asked to contact Bend Police at 541-693-6911 or 541-322-2960. 

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