Hi Paul. Hi Ardly. How are you doing? I'm doing great. How are you? I'm so good. It's so great to have you on Small Town Dicks. Oh I am so happy to be here. So we want to know how did we persuade you to join us here on Small Town Dicks. Oh it was it was a lot of arm twisting. Not the truth.

Well what has always impressed me about Small Town Dicks is the professionalism. First you have your authenticity. You know Dan and Dave, myself we come out of real crime. We've had real experiences. And so the audience, the listeners are getting from Small Town Dicks. What actually happens out there. Not something that's been glamorized. But also you guys don't exploit the cases. You're empathetic to the victims. And this is what I'm all about. And I know that people who know me from

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Hey Small Town Fam, it's yardly. I hope you're all well and looking after yourselves. The news cycle these days is so awful and brutal.

That we thought we'd offer a little distraction in the way of another treat from the best of our Patreon archives. These two cases are from Detective Dan and they serve as cautionary tales to help you avoid becoming the victim of a crime.

But also if you hate exercising, the first case might be just the reason you need to cancel your gym membership. Please enjoy the key Fab Berkleries and Stoos Crew.

Hey Small Town Super Fam, here we are again on Patreon. Oh my god, I love these visits. You guys are awesome. I have with me here. Are you ready? Detective Dan. Good afternoon. Good afternoon and I'll have Detective Dave.

I am here again. The band is all together. So Small Town Super Fam as you know this is where we get the tastiest snackable content. Gentlemen, take it away.

So I get assigned this report. It's a burglary. This family had two cars. Husband and wife took one of the cars out for the afternoon and when they came home they find their house burglarized and the cars missing from the garage.

And the person that broke into the house stole a bunch of credit cards and like checkbooks, jewelry, etc.

The other thing is he's got a garage door opener in his car. Who does the husband? Yeah, the car that's been stolen has the garage door opener and a lot of people don't lock that door from the garage to the main house.

So if you have the garage door opener, you just click it and you have full access to the house. Plus people keep a lot of valuable things in their garage, welders and things that can quickly be turned into dope or cash on the street.

So the car and it's license plate are entered onto our hot sheet which has all the local stolen cars that are outstanding.

And then over the next couple of days we have a string of thefts. So like one occurs at a local athletic club. And this is the first time I get a look at who my offender is.

The stolen car pulls into the parking lot and I can even see the license plate. The video is really good. And a female and a male get out of the car. They're in their mid to late 20s and they walk into the athletic club.

The female walks into the women's locker room, the male walks into the men's locker room. And what we figure out is that some of these people that were working out there didn't lock up their stuff in a locker.

They just put it in a locker and didn't actually secure the locker.

My male and female suspect start rifling through people's lockers while they're working out and they come up with car keys and they've got wallets so they're stealing credit cards, cash, necklaces because you don't want to break your necklace while you're working out.

All kinds of things. And they go out into the parking lot. There are probably 30 cars in the parking lot. They hit the buttons to figure out which cars are open.

Which cars correspond to which set of keys, which set of key fobs and the open cars and they go through the glove compartment and people keep their registration, their insurance card in the glove compartment and they've got an address.

They know that these people are working out so they're going to be gone for an hour or two.

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