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- G - A <br />~, . ~ ~ <br />r~ <br />... '= ~ . <br />.Star 7ribuna/Saturday/September 4/19°3 . _ ... _ _ ~Be <br />~~' ~~ ~ r' <br />.~ _ , .: <br />5 <br />f v ~ ~- ~ , r- f~ t't ~ /~ ~ ,5 t f ''', , Fem.. 4 / , <br />Ey Tatsha Robertson <br />Staff Writer <br />A six-month investigation of a <br />Bloomington pawnshop resulted in <br />12 arrests and the seizure of more <br />than 200 items believed to have been <br />stolen. <br />Authorities on Thucsda}• searched <br />National Pawn Brokers Unlimited, <br />360 Lyndale Av. S. Itcrns such as <br />computers and other electronic <br />equipment, bicycles, guns and jewel- <br />ry v: ere confiscated. . <br />been misplaced. _ _:•, <br />~i- <br />The shop's owner, Daryl Shiber, said <br />he has done nothing tivrong. He'said <br />there are times when a police hold is <br />placed on an item believed to liave <br />been. stolen, but that because of,a <br />high vohnne of business, the items <br />are sornetimes misplaced or mistak- <br />enly sold. He said he has 300 to 400 <br />customers a day. <br />i` <br />"I ntn a clean operation here. I coop- <br />erate with with all police depart- <br />ments," he said. - <br />. T~aclve customers were arrested at According to the affidavit, an infor- <br />the shop, mostly for outstanding war- mant told .police that he has sold <br />rants and driving violations. Five stolen items to Shiber and that the <br />were arrested on charges of selling store is known by criminals to bean <br />items they had bought with stolen easy place to sell stolen items. ~. <br />credit cards. <br />A former employee of an Eden Prai- <br />Detectives from the Bloomington Po- ric computer company who i~•as -ar- <br />lice Department and .Hennepin rested during the investigation told <br />County Sheriffs Department said in police that he had been stealing from <br />an affidavit for a search warrant that the company for 14 months and had <br />they had received complaints that the sold stolen items to Shiber. Hotivever, <br />"'shop buys,and sells stolenproperty.___ the man told police that he and <br />' - ' ~ " `' ~ ' ` • ~ Shiber ~ncver talked of the itemsi ac- <br />Authorities said_they rioticed.through -'cording to the affidavit. ~~,~• •° •'_'-'- <br />daily checks of the shop that a "dras- ~ ~ ' ' ` _ - • <br />tic" amount of stolen items ended up •Shiber has not been arrested: ;;S~c- <br />there. Police said that although holds thorities said they are continuing'.to <br />-were placed on suspicious items, they 'investigate. . ~..' .'. <br />still were sold.or were said to have - .. ::`i.•.= <br />