The Police claim to have found thousands of dollars worth of stolen property and even show in the Press video all the boxes of shoes being pulled out of the Yellow House owners garage. Here is the story of those shoes!
Back in 2005 a guy entered the Topeka store, he presented himself as a guy that people pay to haul off large loads of trash and do clean-ups.
He explained that he had been hired by a shoe store in Kansas City to clear out some pallets of athletic shoes that were stored in some storage units. The shoe store had actually hired him to clear out the shoes and haul them to the dump. But they were all new in the boxes and he could see no point in throwing them away. So he took all five pallets of shoes to his barn.
He soon found the market for these ugly outdated shoes from the 1980's for baseball, shotput and track was quite bad. He was selling them for the bargain price of one dollar a pair. The Yellow House offered to buy about 12 boxes full of shoes. But they too found the shoes had no value and were not marketable even on Ebay.
When the Police searched the Yellow House owners home, they found the boxes of worthless shoes in the garage and paraded them in front of the press to make it look like lots of stolen property was being confiscated. (lo)
The uncovered Insurance scam:
During the Proffer the Yellow House owners informed the police officers where the shoes came from and that they were not stolen.
The officers then said they had contacted the shoe store and the shoe store had confirmed the shoes had been reported stolen!
The scam then became clear to the Yellow House but not the Police!
These shoes were old and had no value. So why would this old man that owns a hauling business take the time to break into these storage units and bust his ass to haul 5 pallets of worthless shoes? Then openly bring people out to his barn to sell them!
And even though the police claimed the shoes were stolen, they refused to contact the man and interview him, even after the Yellow House owners gave them his phone number, and contacted the man and arranged for him to give them his statement.
What makes more sense here is the shoe store put the shoes in storage units and then insured them. They then hired the old mans business to haul them to the dump. Once they were gone the shoe store staged the theft, filed the police report and claimed the loss against the insurance!
Did the Lawrence Police ever look into that scenerio...NO!
They just confiscated the shoes and now 3 years later still have them, I am sure they are still in the property room because its highly unlikely anybody has STOLEN them! lo!!
The police never interviewed the guy that the Yellow House owners got the shoes from, he talked to the Yellow House owners several times about the situation, and gladly said he would give the police his statement.
see the video of the police loading all those boxes of worthless shoes:
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