MEXICO, Maine — Thousands of dollars worth of items, including antique pistols and coins taken in home burglaries last month, have been recovered, police Lt. Roy Hodsdon said this week.
Hodsdon said the items were recovered by working with area pawn shops and collectors. Still missing is most of a valuable coin collection, jewelry, tools and Civil War memorabilia.
The investigation is continuing.
Hodsdon said four homes on Roxbury Road, and one each on Harlow Hill Road, Kimball Avenue, Burton Street and Middle Avenue were broken into between July 16 and 30. Two more homes, on Kimball Avenue and Middle Avenue were burglarized a couple of days later.
Among the items taken were chain saws, gold, antique handguns, a rare coin collection, Civil War memorabilia and heirloom jewelry.
He said about $1,500 damage was done to doors and windows of the burglarized homes.
Anthony Mann, 21, of Kimball Avenue, was arrested on two counts of receiving stolen property and released from the Mexico Police Department on $1,200 unsecured bail on July 30, the lieutenant said. A few days later, following a search at the Sun Valley Circle apartment complex, he was arrested on a probation hold for three counts of burglary.
Darryl P. Streeper Jr., 23, of the Sun Valley Circle apartment complex in Mexico received a summons on a charge of violation of conditions of release following the search at Sun Valley Circle, Hodsdon said.
In other police matters, residents of Swett Avenue, Middle Avenue, Kimball Avenue and Granite Street have reported money, a GPS, jewelry, an MP4 and other items stolen from unlocked vehicles in the past week. Police have leads, Hodsdon said.
Hodsdon urged owners to lock their vehicles.
A Chicken Coop employee reported at 11:53 a.m. Friday that someone damaged the Main Street restaurant’s sign atop the roof. It’s valued at $100.
A Kimball Avenue resident reported at 11:51 a.m. Aug. 8 that someone stole a chain saw valued at $100 from his garage.
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This sounds like a swell place to live!!!!
I remember calling the police once about a break in and they told me they wouldn’t put any effort into it. I guess I should have moved to a higher scale neighbor hood.
I wonder what would happen if there were no more pawn shops? Where I live, near the NH border of Maine, there’s way too many pawn shops both here and across the border in nearbye Rochester, NH. We’ve been the victim of robberies a few times and it was a huge task to get to each of the pawn shops in the area, to check if our items were there. We never found any of the items stolen. There’s just way too many pawn/second hand shops, to be able to track things down, and it seems like new shops are springing up monthly lately, as the crime rate seems to go up. Infuriates me to no end, and no matter how low on funds I personally may be, if I’m in need of something, I just can’t in good conscience, go into those places to shop. Every time I pass one, I can’t help but think about how many items must be in them that are stolen from ‘somewhere’. :(
Wow, They found a pawn shop that helped with an investigation. Now that is news !!!