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First and foremost did you write your serial numbers down and keep them in a safe place? This is one of the best ways to recover lost or stolen items, it will also help you collect on your insurance claims. Call the police to get the ball rolling. Supply them with the proof of ownership, serial numbers, and images. Get a police report. Ask them how they will handle this theft: are they just giving you a report for insurance purposes and throwing their copy in a file, or will they "work the case" by contacting shops and other police departments in the vicinity? (It would be sad if the thief dumped the equipment a few miles down the road and the police don't know about it because it was found in another town). Ask them whom in the department you should contact if you get a lead regarding the item. Help yourself find the item. I know it may sound futile, but it makes it easier for the thief if you don't try. If the police don't do it: call shops in neighboring towns. Peruse "for-sale" items in the paper, check those Internet auction sites, call other police departments and ask if any items like yours were recovered lately. Repeat on a monthly basis. My local police department auctions off an amazing number of unclaimed goods every year -- the stuff was found, but the owners had stopped looking. I got this next piece of advice from the MissingScopes Group: Ask the police to take fingerprints or other forensic evidence at the crime scenes to see if it matches a known criminal. Some departments won't do this unless the stolen items exceed a certain value -- but you could insist they do anyway. Ask if the item's serial numbers can be entered into the FBI's national crime computer database of stolen items. If the thieves are caught, call up and speak to the person at the prosecutor's office handling the case. Make sure the prosecutor is prepared to ask the judge for restitution on damaged or missing items the criminals are charged with stealing. Just showing an interest in your case may move it to the top of the pile and motivate the prosecutor's office to do a thorough job. Please fill out this form with all the information listed. We are helping because most law enforcement agencies and the public in general have the misconception that pawnshops are a dropping off place for stolen merchandise. Granted there are things that end up in pawnshops that are stolen but they are far less than people would like to think. Please understand that a majority of stolen items never end up in pawn shops. By filling out this form, it will help identify any item that might come into one our shops and to report it to our local law enforcement agency, so they may deal with. We are regulated and licensed by the state to ensure we do not deal in stolen merchandise. For the same purpose all transactions are closely monitored by law enforcement agencies. We will also let our local law enforcement agency know if your items show up at one of our shops. You should check places that people would go to sell items that were lost or stolen. Flea markets, jewelry buyers, collectible stores, repair centers, used sporting goods stores, gun dealers, police property rooms, jewelry stores, second hand stores, used tool shops, used game shops and swap meets or any place you think that they could sell a stolen item, you see all pawn shops are required by law to ask for ID while the others are not. We wish you all the luck in recovering your items and we will do all we can to help. This is for the "Southern California area only"