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| What would you do if you found out your friend was stealing your prescription pain meds for many months running? |
What a difficult situation. And then to complicate it--nobody does anything about it when it is reported.
What a conundrum.
Here is what I was told by a constituent(names and other information redacted). Now I'm not a cop and I'm not a psychologist--I'm just a commissioner. But I have a response for this constituent and below her email is my response.....
"I came to the XXXXXXXXXXXX to file a report @ catching a thief in my car back in
December. Yes, I know they can't do anything now but I wanted to at least to
give a sworn statement & have it on record because since me coming out on XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX, 5 other people have also come forward with similar
stories surrounding this person. I was told no, it was too late to file a
report. .
This has caused me great concern & I'm worried not just
for my own safety but the new people in XXXXXXXX who see this person on XXXXXXXXXXXXx & believe XXXXXXX represents us. XXXXXX does present well by XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX & is vocal XXXXXXXXXXXXX. But XXXXXX is
staining the values we represent in the XXXXXXXXXXXX& I don't want
anyone else to be a victim.
XXXXXX was my friend & I knew XXXXXXXhad a problem with XXXXXXXX but to see XXXXXX in my vehicle digging through my purse XXXXXXXXXXX devastated me. I had been missing pills from my prescription bottles
for months but couldn't figure out who it was or when it could've happened.
Every month they kept going missing - first just 5 or 6, then 10-15. I didn't
report it right then & there because and only because i was in shock. Our
kids were there & I just wanted to get out of there.
Fast forward 2 months later at XXXXXXXXXX. I'm talking to one
of our XXXXXXXXXXX & I confide in him about what had happened. He tells
me I'm not the 1st person that this had happened to. So I dug a little more and
asked a few more questions to a few more XXXXXXXXX people & got the same
answers. I posted a very vague, but obvious to the victims, description
of what happened to me & I got 3 messages privately telling me same
stories.
So at that point I figured XXXXXXXXX has a problem community
member that needs to be on watch.
