News and Success Stories

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“While investigating a residential breaking and entering case, I located transaction records of a serial number connected to a stolen Yamaha flute. The shop in Greensboro, N.C. was contacted, and I learned the business still had the stolen flute. Once I responded to the shop, I learned several other stolen items (from this same case) were sold there as well. We recovered the flute along with an Xbox game console, and several games. The property was worth over $2,600, and we recovered it with the help of LeadsOnline. Thanks!”

Det. Jason Teague
Alamance County Sheriff’s Office
North Carolina

“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

“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

“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 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

“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

“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

“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

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

Det. TJ Hawley
Atlanta Police Department
Texas

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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 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

“LeadsOnline has dramatically increased our theft case solving rate in just the short time that we have been utilizing it. The latest case involved a theft at a women’s residence where several electronics device had been stolen. We later found out that they had been gifts from her mother who had passed away and meant more to her than a simple dollar amount. We were able to locate the items at a pawn store 50 miles away along with a store photograph of the suspect and their driver’s license. This person will be prosecuted. The woman will receive her items back and showed an overwhelming gratitude for our efforts. This case and many others like it would not be possible without this great tool.”

Dep. Daniels Meyer
Rush County Sheriff’s Office
Indiana

“I was investigating a theft from a mobile home. The suspect decided to move out without telling the owner of the property, and he also decided to take the brand new refrigerator and stove with him. I guess he needed some extra cash. I ran the guy’s name in your system and lo-and-behold, there he was. He pawned the fridge and stove for a total of $100 (original cost was $1,100). Warrant obtained! Good guys: one…bad guys: none! Thanks LeadsOnline!”

Dep. Damon Bone
Shelby County Sheriff’s Department
Alabama

“I took a Theft of Property report where several Dewalt drills, chargers and their batteries were taken from a business. The victim had one suspect, but he wasn’t really sure because he only had personal suspicions. I entered my case number and began working my case with LeadsOnline, and BOOM! There were some of the drills, among other items that were pawned by the suspect at two different pawn shops down the street from each other. I obtained a felony warrant – case closed. Very cool!”

Dep. Damon Bone
Shelby County Sheriff’s Office
Alabama

“I am a detective in the State of Florida and have used LeadsOnline for a little over a year to investigate numerous cases. I have recovered several firearms and large amounts of jewelry, tools and electronics totaling approximately $50,115. LeadsOnline is a great database that helps me and other detectives on a daily bases. Thank you LeadsOnline for all of your help!!!”

Dep. Michael Smith
St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office
Florida

“I was assigned a case where jewelry was being stolen out of residences’ at a retirement community. After talking to management and questioning people who had access to the residences, I completed a search on LeadsOnline and developed a good suspect. I made contact with management of the retirement community and questioned them about the individual. Management advised the individual was an employee of the retirement community who worked as a security guard and had access to all of the residences at the facility. Management had left off the individual because they did not think about the security guard position when they gave me a list of the employees that I wanted to question. The security guards at the facility get alerts when residents go out of town and request their residences to be checked while they are gone or request not to check the residence when they are out of town. The security guard would get a list of the residences where the homeowners were out of town and would then commit burglaries to the residences. After a LeadsOnline search, I was able to recover large amounts of stolen jewelry and a large coin collection that was stolen by the suspect. The suspect was interviewed and confessed to all of the burglaries. Without LeadsOnline, I would not have been able to identify the suspect and later be able to recover the stolen items. Thanks again LeadsOnline for all your help!!!”

Dep. Michael Smith
St. John’s County Sheriff’s Office
Florida

“LeadsOnline helped me solve a case last year. I had the name of the suspect and when I entered the name in LeadsOnline, I was able to locate the items they had sold throughout the state. LeadsOnline is a great tool for law enforcement.”

Dep. Chuck Marshall
Tyler County Sheriff’s Office
Texas

“We had a case involving a stolen generator, and by searching the serial number we recovered it. Thanks guys, the LeadsOnline system rocks.”

Dep. DJ Osborn
Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office
Washington

“Just want to say the system worked to perfection. Took a burglary report and since I was provided a serial number, I put it in the system. Within 30 minutes of the original report, I had already recovered the property and arrested the suspect on trafficking and other charges.”

Dep. DJ Osborn
Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office
Washington

“After a burglary was charged out, and the prosecutor’s office declined to prosecute it, I was assigned to re-investigate the case. I checked all persons in the case through LeadsOnline and found that the TV taken in the burglary had been pawned. I recovered the television, completed the investigation and requested a total of 19 criminal charges on the three individuals involved. None of that would have happened if I had not found the television using LeadsOnline.”

Dep. Craig Quick
Winnebago Sheriff’s Department
Wisconsin

“I would like to say thank you! Your website solved two cases for me in the last few weeks. It makes my job a lot easier when I know we have people like you helping us.”

Dep. Rick Craft
Worthington Police Department
Kentucky

“You all are great. I solved another case with your help. This guy will spend some times in jail.”

Dep. Rick Craft
Worthington Police Department
Kentucky

“During my 30-day free trial with LeadsOnline, a citizen entered my office in reference to reporting her watch stolen. She gave me the type of watch and the name of a suspect. I entered the information in the LeadsOnline database and presto! I got his picture, a picture of the watch, the location where it was sold, and a copy of his driver’s license. This case was solved in less than 10 minutes. Now that’s technology at its best. I recommend LeadsOnline to all law enforcement agencies!”

Dep. Chief Jerry Blash
Alma Police Department
Georgia

“I was investigating two burglaries that occurred a week apart and on the same road. By using LeadsOnline, I was able to locate nearly all the stolen items and identify the suspect in both incidents. The victims will receive their property back because of this system.”

Dep. Sheriff Eric Jank
Pierce County Sheriff’s Office
Washington

“I responded to a grand theft in which the victim made contact with the Polk County Sheriff’s Office. While conducting the investigation, I learned the suspects sold the items at a local secondhand shop. The suspect also pawned items in Orlando.”

Dep. Sheriff Russell Hilson
Polk County Sheriff’s Office
Florida

“While investigating a theft from a residence in Lakeland, Florida we learned the suspect’s mother was the person who sold the stolen items. LeadsOnline alerted us within one day of the transaction and the crime was quickly solved. Because of LeadsOnline, the victim got their property back and two subjects were arrested.”

Dep. Sheriff Sean Ryan
Polk County Sheriff’s Office
Florida

“I was investigating a theft from a mobile home. The suspect decided to move out without telling the owner of the property. The suspect also decided to take the brand new refrigerator and stove with him. I guess he needed some extra cash. I ran the guy’s name in your system and lo and behold there he was. He pawned the fridge and stove for a total of $100 (original cost was $1100). Obtained warrant! Good guys one, bad guys none! Thanks LeadsOnline!”

Dep. Sheriff Damon Bone
Shelby County Sheriff’s Office
Alabama

“A suspect was arrested and confessed to several car dealership burglaries where he targeted the safes. After making bond, he vanished. He was flagged as a person of interest in LeadsOnline at that time. Seven months later, I received pawn hits on this subject near the Mexico border. Those law enforcement agencies were notified of the pawn hit and also of his background regarding dealership burglaries. They advised that they had several car dealership burglaries over the last few months and the m.o. was identical to this same individual. They were able to track this subject down and arrest him on several outstanding warrants. He subsequently confessed to dealership burglaries in that area as well. His whereabouts would still be unknown had he not been flagged as a person of interest in LeadsOnline.”

Det. Shad Phillips
Abilene Police Department
Texas

“We have only had LeadsOnline for about three weeks, but already have been able to recover property for victims, and develop suspects in cases that we may not have. Our system prior to this was usually about two months behind getting entered into the database. The feature I love is being able to save the searches and be notified when one of our known burglars pawns something. Thanks for a great system, that’s cop friendly”.””

Det. Matt Buie
Ada County Sheriff’s Office
Idaho

“In May, I searched LeadsOnline for a serial number for a camera taken in a burglary to motor vehicle. The camera was located using LeadsOnline at a local business. The person who sold it was interviewed and provided the name of the person who provided it to him. That subject was arrested and charged.”

Det. Eric Brant
Addison Police Department
Illinois

“While investigating a recent residential burglary, I entered the names of the residents from the victim’s home into LeadsOnline. I received a positive hit on one of these names indicating that one of the items listed as being stolen had been sold by him on the same date as the burglary. I spoke with this subject and obtained a full confession.”

Det. Eric Brant
Addison Police Department
Illinois

“I checked our NCIC hits and found a perfect match between a pawn ticket out of Ohio and an NCIC hit on a Sony game console. I notified the investigating trooper, and he coordinated with the local Ohio agency to retrieve the console to return it to the owner. The console was stolen in June 2013, but with the help of LeadsOnline, we were able to recover it!”

Criminal Intelligent Analyst II Melinda Thompson
Kentucky State Police Post 6
Kentucky

“Once again LeadsOnline came through. I had a case of a stolen 16-foot car trailer, but there were no leads to go off of. I went to LeadsOnline to further investigate the case, and I was eventually able to make an arrest from the information I found in the online database.”

Dep. Bobby Hickman
Ballard County Sheriff’s Department
Kentucky