“I was working an investigation were multiple homes had been broken into in one general area. With no leads at the time, one of the homes that was broken into had a camera so we were able to get a video of the suspects. Pictures were shown to multiple department with no luck getting the suspects identified. I responded to another burglary in the same area where all the others had occurred. The victim was able to provide a good serial number on the stolen items. Once this detective was back into the office, I ran the serial number in LeadsOnline and got a hit. I took that information and linked the suspect to multiple burglaries in our county. We were able to locate the suspect and interview him and his daughter on all the burglaries. With the information received from LeadsOnline, I was able to get a confession and solve the cases. The suspect was found to be a serial burglar and had done this for many years. Without the LeadsOnline, we may not have been able to crack this case.”

Det. Jeff Asbury
Bourbon County Sheriff’s Department
Kentucky

“We just recovered a stolen diamond cluster cocktail ring!”

Det. Don Dillard
Boulder County Sheriff’s Office
Colorado

“Once again, thanks to LeadsOnline, we were able to solve a string of burglaries on a multi-jurisdictional level. Boulder City Police Department, along with Henderson and Las Vegas, arrested an individual. This led us to three of her associates, in which we subsequently submitted arrest warrants. In addition, one of the subject’s is on the run outside of Nevada, but we were able to locate the suspect and his girlfriend in Utah. Boulder City uses LeadsOnline routinely, leading to numerous arrests. Thank you!”

Det. Scott Pastore
Boulder City Police Department
Nevada

“Thanks to LeadsOnline I was able to capture two people who committed multiple burglaries in our parish. By using the LeadsOnline database, I was able to obtain warrants for the individuals and recover the stolen items. Thanks for all your help!”

Det. Chad Madden
Bossier Parish Sheriff’s Office
Louisiana

“I just want to say thank you LeadsOnline for making this young and inexperienced rookie Detective look like a Rock Star! I solved a burglary case by just entering a serial number. The serial number was for a Microsoft Xbox that was taken from a residence along with other items. The victim and the victim’s kids were so happy to get their Xbox back. If everyone would record the serial numbers of their property, it would be easily recovered using LeadsOnline.”

Det. Tony Perkins
Boone County Sheriff’s
Missouri

“We were able to recover $8,000 in stolen tools in Valaparaiso, Indiana. I recently heard that that the female offender, who sold the tools at a pawn shop in Valaparaiso cannot figure out how the police found the stolen items and linked them to her. She thinks someone is ratting on them, so she and the other suspects are dumping their phones because they think we are listening! Thank you LeadsOnline for all your help.”

Det. Sean Talbot
Bolingbrook Police Department
Illinois

“A victim called the Bolingbrook Police Department to report her missing digital camera. It went missing from her home, where only family members and one family friend had access. The victim contacted Jennifer from LeadsOnline, in hopes to recover her own camera. Jennifer contacted me and got the ball rolling for the victim. The victim gave me the serial number and the name of the family friend who had a shady past. I located the camera in Summit Argo, Illinois, but it was sold by the victim’s brother, not the family friend. The victim was able to recover her stolen camera, but she didn’t want to press any criminal charges.”

Det. Scott Lustik
Bolingbrook Police Department
Illinois

“I received a case with very little follow up info except for a camera make and serial number. I ran the serial number through LeadsOnline and found the name of a possible suspect. The last name was different than the victim’s so I had no problem asking him if he knew who this woman was. He went silent for a while and said, `That explains it….` His step-daughter had been cleaning him out and pawning items. We figured out through LeadsOnline that she had been at it for over two years and had pawned a retail value of about $60,000 worth of his stuff. Step-dad and mom went forward with prosecution and the suspect plead guilty to the felony. We got his camera and some tools back. The other stuff was long gone but she was ordered to pay $14,270 in restitution.”

Det. Todd Bilbo
Boise Police Department
Idaho

“In July 2003, I received a case file where an elderly lady hired a caretaker to help her around her apartment because of an illness she had. Items started coming up missing, including a one-of-a-kind custom made diamond ring given to her by her deceased husband. The suspect of course denied she ever stole anything from the lady. I ran her name and her daughter’s name through LeadsOnline and discovered numerous pawns at 2 pawn shop locations by both the suspect and her daughter. I found the stolen ring at one of the pawn shops, and the manager not only had the signed pawn ticket by the suspect, he was able to identify the suspect as the person who pawned the ring. The suspect had been stealing from her elderly clients and pawning the stolen jewelry. I reported her to the state licensing department and had her license revoked. The suspect was also charged with a Felony for stealing. The victim was so happy to be able to get her late husband’s keepsake back.”

Det. Ron Gondran
Blue Springs Police Department
Missouri

“On the very first day of activation, our investigators were able to solve a burglary that was 10 months old with no leads by finding stolen property that had been pawned. The suspect was also arrested for other crimes that he admitted to under interrogation. We were also able to solve a year-old theft by locating a stolen camcorder that had been pawned, as well as computer equipment stolen by a company employee and kept in pawn for several months. He had no idea how we found him and was very shocked. Thanks for a great search/investigative tool.”

Det. James Kelley
Blue Ash Police Department
Ohio

“Thanks to an automatic notification via LeadsOnline, we recovered another stolen iPad. This was an especially meaningful recovery because it belonged to an Air National Guard member who is due to be deployed for Afghanistan soon, and he was hoping to take it with him. It was originally stolen from his hotel room, and we are so glad that this system exists – it is well worth the money.”

Det. James Kelley
Blue Ash Police Department
Ohio

“With the assistance of LeadsOnline, I have been able to recover thousands of dollars worth of stolen property which has since been returned to the victims. LeadsOnline is a great resource in the fight against crime.”

Det. Pete Rivas
Blount County Sheriff’s Office
Tennessee

“A thief had stolen a woman’s cell phone from a grocery cart. She called EcoATM and gave them her phone’s IMEI number. EcoATM called her when her phone was sold to one of their kiosks. The lady came and made a police report and I found the phone at a kiosk in a neighboring city. EcoATM took several HD pictures of the thief from different angles, as well as a scan of his ID card and his thumb print. All of this was available to me when I logged onto LeadsOnline. Needless to say, the thief admitted to the theft and the sale of the stolen cell phone.”

Det. Justin Howard
Birmingham Police Department
Alabama

“Using the save search feature, I was notified and able to recover a stolen laptop that showed up at a business several months after the original theft. No charges yet in this case, but the victim has some of her belongings back.”

Det. Justin Howard
Birmingham Police Department
Alabama

“After receiving a Burglary report, I contacted the victim who told me the suspect’s name that was observed going into her apartment. While I was still on the phone with the victim, I searched LeadsOnline using the suspects name and was able to locate the item. The ps4 was recovered and charges are pending on the suspect.”

Det. Justin Howard
Birmingham Police Department
Alabama

“Recently I have had 2 cases where a cellphone was part of the items taken during robberies of persons. I was able to locate the cellphones, I.D. possible suspects, recover the phones, and make arrests and charge the subjects responsible for the robberies. I have solved so many cases due to LeadsOnline, it’s unreal. LeadsOnline is one of my main tools that I use on an everyday basis. I have been able to put faith into the victims that someone does care about them and is working to help them. Thank the complete staff at LeadsOnline! Y’all are the rock stars in my eyes.”

Det. Johnny Brooks
Birmingham Police Department
Alabama

“I was able to place a guy in custody for receiving stolen property in the 2nd degree after using this system. Then I made a victim very happy by returning her $750, 42 TV. Thanks from the both of us!””

Det. Casey Bailey
Birmingham Police Department
Alabama

“Thanks to LeadsOnline I pretty much returned a victim’s entire tool shed. He had over $2,000 worth of tools stolen. He was very thankful. Thanks for the help!”

Det. Casey Bailey
Birmingham Police Department
Alabama

“Thanks to this program I was able to locate an Apple computer and a firearm from two different cases. Both were returned to the owners, and they were incredibly happy. It was the perfect time of the year, and they could not have been any more grateful to have the items returned. We closed these cases and made someone’s day. Thank you for all the help!”

Det. Casey Bailey
Birmingham Police Department
Alabama

“During the first half of the year, I worked three employee theft cases in which large amounts of expensive tools were stolen from several businesses throughout the area. As a direct result of LeadsOnline, numerous items were recovered and confessions were obtained. These are just a few examples of our agency’s frequent use of LeadsOnline. The LeadsOnline system provides the avenue for returning stolen property to victims, and for preparing cases that result in convictions. Our Police Officers and our colleagues with surrounding agencies locate stolen property on a continuous basis.”

Det. Chartier
Billings Police Department
Montana

“I recently had a case where a mother claimed her son had stolen her credit card and used it to purchase $529.78 worth of video game systems and games. I ran the name of the suspect’s son through LeadsOnline and did not find him. But, I then ran his friends and associates and found one of them had pawned the same video game system and games that were purchased by the suspect the day before. I retrieved the items and also the video from the pawn shop. I was able to get a full confession from the friend and the suspect, who also confessed to another crime of check fraud. Two more of my cases solved through LeadsOnline!”

Det. Oren Skurnik
Bexar County Sheriff’s Office
San Antonio

“I recently investigated a larceny in a building case where a Raymond Weil watch was reported stolen out of a local athletic club. The victim was unable to provide a serial number for the watch. I located a similar watch on LeadsOnline that was sold approximately four hours after the watch was reported stolen. The watch was sold to a shop in close proximity to my jurisdiction. The subject who sold the watch had a membership at the athletic club in question, and after further investigation, I proved the subject who sold the watch was my suspect. According to my suspect, he found the watch outside. Although I was not able to prosecute, I did locate my victim’s watch and got it back for him. The watch was a gift from his wife and meant a lot to him. The suspect ended up reimbursing the victim for money spent buying his watch back. This case would have never been solved without LeadsOnline, and my victim never would have seen his watch again.”

Det. Tom Danielson
Beverly Hills Police Department
Michigan

“I was working with a detective who is new to our unit in investigating a case. I showed him how to use LeadsOnline as a tool to locate stolen items. He had a case where items totaling $4,000 were taken from a residence, and another case in which $2,500 worth of items were taken. I had the victim tell me the names of everyone that had lived at his residence. I checked all subjects with LeadsOnline, and found that a female subject currently living with the victim had pawned the items on the dates in question. I also found that the female suspect had pawned several other items of the victim’s that he did not know about. The victim was able to recover tools, electronic items, and several valuable rings. The new detective was very excited to solve his first case, and was thrilled to use this tool. He now runs every case he gets on LeadsOnline. Thanks again for a wonderful system and tool for law enforcement.”

Det. T. Snipes
Berkeley Police Department
Missouri

“Last week, there was an interrupted residential burglary. A Patrol Officer spotted the suspect’s car and the chase was on. The suspect got away, but I was able to identify him. Through LeadsOnline, I found that one of the suspect’s associates had recently pawned several items, and I matched the items to a recent car prowl case. I arrested the guy who pawned the items and he admitted to pawning them for the guy that we had earlier chased. Because of LeadsOnline, I was able to arrest one guy, get some stolen property back to the owner, and get additional charges on the guy who ran from us. Also, last month I was working a group who were breaking into homes all over the Puget Sound area. Using LeadsOnline, I was able to tie them to several other burglaries and get property back to the owners.”

Det. Steve Hoover
Bellevue Police Department
Washington

“I recently had a burglary case where a woman had several pieces of jewelry stolen that were of very sentimental value to her. She did have a suspect, and thanks to LeadsOnline, I was able to quickly locate the jewelry at a local pawn shop and put a hold on it. I then recovered all the jewelry a couple days later. My victim was so thankful to get her jewelry back and file charges against the suspect. Without LeadsOnline, we would not have the capability to find many stolen items so quickly and efficiently. Thanks again for all your help and support in keeping this program such a success!”

Det. Jill Liter
Beech Grove Police Department
Indiana

“A man was looking at cell phones in a local store when another man stole his current cell phone when he left it lying on the counter by accident. The suspect took the stolen cell phone to the ecoATM nearby and sold it. We received an NCIC Hit on LeadsOnline that gave us the ID of the suspect and helped us get a warrant for his arrest.”

Det. Rodney Curd
Beavercreek Police Department
Ohio

“A subject pawned a Wii game console and games the same day it was stolen. Using LeadsOnline, I positively matched serial numbers, implicating the suspect. Thank you very much for your assistance. The owner will be very grateful to get his property back since he was actually trying to help the ‘homeless person’ who is responsible for stealing and pawning the items.”

Det. Darleen Wisby
Beaumont Police Department
Texas

“I ran a 7-day search for an Echo weed eater and found it along with the stolen edge trimmer. I put it on hold, and after seeing the pictures, the victim made a positive ID. The suspect’s name was familiar to me because the guy’s son is always in trouble so I wasn’t surprised to see the dad pawning the stolen property.”

Det. John McMurray
Bean Station Police Department
Tennessee

“I have had two burglaries solved within 24 hours of them occurring this month, and it’s all thanks to LeadsOnline. Thanks for your help Leads.”

Det. Doug Henry
Barry County Sheriff’s Office
Missouri

“I found stolen property within minutes thanks to your service. We had a victim come in that had a leaf blower, nail gun and chainsaw stolen. Using LeadsOnline, we found them within 5 minutes of the report! Our victim said to tell you thank you for what you all do.”

Det. Doug Henry
Barry County Sheriff’s Department
Missouri

“I found stolen property within minutes thanks to your service. We had a victim come in who had a leaf blower, nail gun and chainsaw stolen. Within five minutes of the report, we located the property. Our victims said to tell you thank you for what you all do.”

Det. Doug Henry
Barry County Sheriff
Missouri

“I was assigned a Stealing Over $500 investigation involving an employee from a carpet cleaning company. While cleaning victims’ carpets, the employee stole three very expensive rings. During the course of my investigation, I entered the employee’s name into LeadsOnline in an attempt to locate him. The employee is an immigrant from Iraq, and due to his unusual name, I entered just the first name into the LeadsOnline system, which came up with a match. He sold four pieces of jewelry to a pawn shop in St. Charles City (a neighboring county). The victim in my case identified one of the rings as being hers. The ring recovered was valued at $1,800.00. I spoke with the St. Charles City, Missouri Police Department about the offense. Det. Gary Drury from St. Charles City advised me that he possibly had a case on the employee. After speaking with me, he was also able to make a case on the employee. Through further investigation, I found that the Crestwood, Missouri Police Department also had an interest in the employee. After relaying information to Det. Applebaum from Crestwood, he was able to make the case. In total, the employee pawned 15 items of jewelry at area pawnshops. He is currently pending trial in circuit court. Without LeadsOnline, this case may have gone unsolved.”

Det. Michael Reynolds
Ballwin Police Department
Missouri

“My agency was presented with LeadsOnline. During the demonstration, a stolen article was linked to our ORI. Further investigation revealed that the item was, in fact, stolen from our jurisdiction in early 2013. Without LeadsOnline we would have had slim chances in finding the sold item. Since that date, I have been able to solve additional cases. Thank you LeadsOnline for assisting in Law Enforcement Officer’s endeavors to recover stolen property.”

Det. Rodney Driggers
Baker County Sheriff’s Office
Florida

“I had several burglaries of Brake Check stores in June 2004. The suspects stole numerous tools. There were no suspects or leads. No new burglaries of Brake Checks occurred until October 2004. We developed a name of a suspect and ran pawn searches [on LeadsOnline]. Not only did we find the tools stolen in October and November but also the ones stolen in the June burglaries as well. All were dutifully recorded in the LeadsOnline database. We can more than likely clear 11 Burglaries, 2 auto thefts and one burglary of a vehicle all thanks to LeadsOnline.”

Det. John Hardage
Austin Police Department
Texas

“1. LeadsOnline is a much faster system. Our in-house system is backlogged anywhere from two weeks to six months. 2. LeadsOnline is an electronic system. Our in-house system has numerous stores that do not transfer data electronically. We have to pick up the pawn slips and have them entered into our system by hand. 3. LeadsOnline is nationwide. Our in-house system can only search stores in Austin. The bad guys know this and will take stolen property to different cities to pawn. 4. LeadsOnline is potentially more accurate. LeadsOnline data only has to be entered once electronically. Using our in-house system, the data may have to be hand entered more than once. This can create errors. 5. LeadsOnline has additional helpful info. LeadsOnline has more data concerning phone numbers and addresses of the businesses right on the search page.”

Det. John Hardage
Austin Police Department
Texas

“Numerous tools had been stolen from Brake Check stores. There were no suspects or leads. The tools were entered into our department pawn database with no success on hits. We developed a name of a suspect and ran pawn searches. Not only did we find the tools stolen recently, but also the ones stolen in burglaries four months earlier as well. All were dutifully recorded in LeadsOnline. We can more than likely clear 11 Burglaries, 2 auto thefts and one burglary of a vehicle all thanks to LeadsOnline.”

Det. John Hardage
Austin Police Department
Texas

“I am a new detective with the Austin Police Department Burglary Unit. I have been able to solve numerous burglaries with the help of LeadsOnline.com.”

Det. David Smith
Austin Police Department
Texas

“Yet again I have located stolen property before responding officers were able to complete their reports. I have lost count of the cases I have solved using LeadsOnline. Search for your property and save the searches, it works!”

Det. David Smith
Austin Police Department
Texas

“Deputy Tim Rammel was doing a routine check of the NCIC hits and came across one that matched for a stolen gun. Simple enough, however, the orignal theft report was taken in November of 1981. After a couple trips to the Pawn Shop and contacting the original owner’s way back then, we were able to locate a stolen gun from a 1981 theft case. Awesome.”

Det. Mike Peterson
Auglaize County Sheriff’s Office
Ohio

“A suspect stole a new snow blower from a hardware store in a local community, but the police department did not have LeadsOnline. I received a call from the police department to check our database, and I located the stolen item along with the suspect. The time of the sale was within travel time from the time and location of the reported theft. The suspect has been arrested and charged with numerous crimes. The local police department called and asked for information about LeadsOnline, and will implement this service into their department.”

Det. Terrence Mccormick
Auburn Police Department
Maine

“I investigated a report of a burglary of a residence where numerous items were taken. I checked the database for LeadsOnline, and it revealed the suspect sold some of the stolen items shortly after the victims left their residence. Because of this information, I was able to charge the suspect with burglary.”

Det. Terrance McCormick
Auburn Police Department
Maine

“Thanks to LeadsOnline, we have solved another vehicle burglary. This is a can’t-work-without investigative tool.”

Det. TJ Hawley
Atlanta Police Department
Texas

“Thanks to LeadsOnline, we solved another vehicle burglary. We can’t work without this great investigative tool.”

Det. TJ Hawley
Atlanta Police Department
Texas

“When working a recent burglary, a victim gave a serial number, size and description of a stolen television. The TV was entered on GCIC. Several days later, I was contacted by another Police agency and advised that they had stopped a vehicle with a TV in it that matched my entered serial number, but the TV was a different size. I remembered the victim had stated he bought the TV from a pawn shop several months ago. I entered LeadsOnline and ran the serial numbers the timeframe of the last two years. I immediately got a return and verified that the victim had reported the wrong size on the TV as verified by the pawn ticket when the pawn shop purchased the TV. As a result, the TV was verified and confiscated. Without LeadsOnline, the verification on the TV size could have taken a while. LeadsOnline is a great investigative tool and a great search method for property.”

Det. Rick Hammond
Athens-Clarke County Police Department
Georgia

“As a property detective, I have successfully used LeadsOnline to not only solve crimes, but also identify ‘fences’ in several cell phone thefts and robberies. I cannot praise the service enough, and I highly recommend it. Using LeadsOnline, I have personally recovered thousands of dollars in victim’s property. Most, if not all, led to the solving of other cases.”

Det. Jody Thompson
Athens-Clarke County Police Department
Georgia

“Last month I was reassigned to the Criminal Investigations Division of my Police Department. In less than a week, LeadsOnline helped me break my first case. The suspect in my case stole several items, so I looked on LeadsOnline first using the suspect name. My suspect had pawned an exact list of everything that had been stolen less than 2 hours after the incident. In less than 24 hours, I was able to recover every piece of stolen property and return it all to it’s owner, a very rare thing in law enforcement. I was also able to charge the suspect with four felonies based on investigative information aided by LeadsOnline.”

Det. Cory Burton
Asheville Police Department
North Carolina

“We had a rash of tool thefts in one specific area of town and we didn’t have a suspect. I used LeadsOnline to run a search on a stolen leaf blower. It led us to a name who had no local records or file. Though he was from another state, we were able to locate him and his girlfriend who was a local. A search warrant was served on his girlfriend’s home and we recovered multiple tools and the suspect. We ended up with multiple felony charges and we were able to return the tools.”

Det. Chris Hickman
Asheville Police Department
North Carolina

“We had a series of church burglaries in in which the suspect would steal the church’s utility trailer and then burglarize the church, loading the stolen property onto the trailer. There was no suspect information. Using LeadsOnline I was able to identify the suspect, recover three stolen trailers, and an assortment of stolen lawn equipment. In one week we recovered approximately $10,000 worth of stolen property. There is no doubt these cases would have gone unsolved without LeadsOnline.”

Det. J.W. McRobbie
Arlington Police Department
Texas

“We took a report from a resident who said they were using their new Stihl weed eater in the front yard when it ran out of string. They took the spool off the weed eater, and went to the garage to re-spool it. Upon returning within minutes to finish the job, the new Stihl weed eater was gone so they filed a theft report. It took the complainant a little over a week to provide us with the model and serial number, but once we had that information, we entered the weed eater into LeadsOnline. Not checking my hit list every day (like I will now) my LeadsOnline rep. called me and reminded me to check my hit list because there were alerts waiting. After a little follow up investigation, we did an early morning wakeup call to our suspect. On the way back to PD, after stopping for coffee, we just so happened to drive by the house where the weed eater was stolen from and the suspect said, ‘That’s the house I took the weed eater from.’ End of story thanks to LeadsOnline.”

Det. Jeff Norton
Amberley Village Police Department
Ohio

“This web based pawn database has made my life as an investigator really easy. Even when I am off in training or class, I can monitor business activity and place holds on items. This database has led to several arrests of burglary and theft suspects, and the recovery of several items. You have made some victims very happy. This is a great tool and the LeadsOnline team has been very helpful.”

Det. Darryl Jones
Albany Police Department
Georgia