I had some kids breaking in and stealing stuff like beer and fireworks out of my garage. Then one of them (17 year old) really crossed the line and stole my tools and fishing gear. Local cops wouldn't to ANYTHING about it so I got a county detective involved while also doing my own "investigating" over the course of a summer. I found out who it was and tried talking to his parents and they were even bigger pieces of trash.
Long story short, when they nabbed the little prick, I got all my stuff back minus my Rapala lures which he sold to some other kid in a different town and he wouldn't give up the name.
That pissed me off but the detective called and thanked me because they solved 27 other burglaries in the county because of what I had found out.
The kid is dead now. OD'd on drugs.
