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my 8 year old has a stealing problem, what can i do?

  • Posted on March 1, 2011 at 10:21 pm

my eight year old daughter has a real bad stealing problem, along with an even worse lying addiction. I am afraid she is heading down the same jail related road i did. Is there any programs I can send her to (in Georgia) that may scare her straight? Counseling does not help, we have done tried that.
i have also already carried her up to the police station, and escorted her to the principals office to return some stolen goods… to let her know Im not playin

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tenant doing drugs and stealing need advice its long?

  • Posted on December 14, 2010 at 3:21 pm

My husband, mother,and I purchased an apartment building in Sept 08. I have never had to deal with the problems I am having now and would like some advice. The previous owner did not have any rules or guidelines. His lease simply said the amount of the rent and security deposit the effective date and there were to be no air conditioners or pets. We asked around town (it is small townt hat does not even have a mail carrying service only PO boxes) All anyone could say about him and the building was good.

We have come to learn that he is basically a jerk but that doesn’t even matter now. The problems I am having is with the tenants. One set in particular r really getting under my skin. For months things were fine. If there would be a problem we would tell the mother and she would take care of it.

Recently, however, I have come to find out that there are a lot of drugs in that apartment. I had been smelling something horrible in my bathroom. Another tenant reported the smelling of it too. It was pot. We told the tenant (whos bathroom it was coming from) about it. She laughed and said that they didn’t do drugs. Then her son admitted that he smokes it in his bedroom (which is bside their bathroom which connects to my bathrm and the other tenants bathrm) he also said that he goes into the bathrm and smokes it. I told him if I smelled it again or ever caught him smoking it on my property they would be evicted.

Now, the tenants daughter loves to share information. She is young and friends with my younger sister and she just talks even if you don’t wnat the information. She was telling us how badly her mother and her mothers bf are into pills. Every Thur the mother goes to a dr then another dr on Fri she gets some type of narcotic. She then is messed up all wkend and also sells the pills. One Sat night we were in the back yard doing smores at the fire pit. The tenant came out and was out of it. She could barely function stand talk walk anything.

the bf also is a heroin addict (according to the daughter and son). he is also a thief. We had cleaned a unit and there was a metal wardrobe in it. I threw it at the dumpster. Here the garbage co. wouldn’t take it. There was also a bunch of other metal scraps we had found while cleaning a section of the property. We planned to haul it in. The other day as I was mowing I noticed that it was gone. It is funny bc previously it kept getting beat in and broken apart to smaller pieces while the tenant had his car. Now he has his truck and it goes missing on the same day he gets the truck back. (This is his MO so he is highly suspected on my list of people. Considering everyone else around here doesn’t have the means to transport or move it is another reason along with him stealing metal from other people) in one way it doesn’t matter bc it wasn’t much but in another way I am angry about it. I also found out that he knew how to sneak into the basement. One day my 19 yr old brother was home visiting. My mother and husband and I went somewhere when we came back my brother said the tenant came to him and asked him to go in the basement w/ him bc he needed the breaker flipped (they are constantly flipping breakers and its all new wiring!) my brother (being too nice) agreed. THe tenant went into the laundry room and from there was able to jiggle open the one door. However he only did the jiggling he had my brother open it. We have secured that door much better (which it had been secured so I do not understand how his jiggling or whatever opened it!) But there had been many times I would go in the basement and find the door open or would think I saw someone in a dark corner. I assumed it to be the regular creepiness of a basement now I wonder if it was him. I also had someone enter my apartment from the basement (I am the only one with a direct entrance to the basement).

The biggest problem I have is I can not actually prove anything. My lawyer says that I need some kind of proof. All I have is hear say. He also said that if I allege these things they could come back with slander. What can I do to get rid of these people?!
Just a bit of side information is I do have a very nice lease with all tenants. In fact they had a fit. The one came to my door complaining how everyone hated the previous owner and his rules then left it at that and went on to say how ridiculious I was etc (its a standard lease I don’t know why everyone was so upset)
thnx james. I haves tried to enlist the help of the police. however we have to rely on the state police bc we are such a small town. They are not too interested in offering their help. I have considered calling our drug investigation task force for the county and seeing where I get.
I have already had the leases redone. All are month to month (due to the length they have already lived here and I did not want to force them to stay should they not like my new rules) One however (which is the one I am having problems with) is a yr lease bc the tenant is on HUD

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would you buy a house if you knew the next door neighbor had been arrested for drugs and stealing?

  • Posted on October 29, 2010 at 9:20 am

apparently he’s been arrested alot, maybe even has a meth lab. also i have a 5 month old daughter.

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Do you beleive this drunk illegal alien lawyer says had no intention of stealing the car with woman & child?

  • Posted on October 5, 2010 at 11:26 pm

Do you beleive this drunk illegal alien lawyer says had no intention of stealing the car with woman & child inside ?An illegal Mexican immigrant was drunk last month when he got into a car in Murrysville with a woman and her 10-year-old daughter and had no intention of hijacking the vehicle, his defense attorney said in court Tuesday.

District Judge Charles Conway of Murrysville dropped a robbery charge against Noe Tovar Baltazar but held him for trial on attempted robbery following a preliminary hearing.

The 23-year-old illegal alien is being held in the Westmoreland County Prison because he could not post the $20,000 bond. Federal authorities have lodged a detainer against Baltazar, who likely will be deported to Mexico once the case against him is completed.

Public Defender L.A. Smith argued that because he was intoxicated on March 18, Baltazar had no intention of stealing the car occupied by Rachel Reidel and her daughter, who were parked at the Village of Murrysville plaza.

“This clearly did not happen,” Smith told the judge. “The man obviously doesn’t understand English and the customs and culture of our country. He may be looking for a ride.”

Assistant District Attorney Mike Pacek said Baltazar attempted to reach for the steering wheel or the keys. That proves Baltazar’s intention, he said.

“In any culture, a man getting into a car with a woman and child is unacceptable. No culture in the world would accept that,” Pacek said. “He intended to get a ride from these ladies — if necessary, by force.”

The diminutive Baltazar sat quietly next to Smith listening to the testimony as an intepreter translated.

Charles Hirschy testified he was sitting in his car in the parking lot waiting for his wife when he saw Baltazar “come out of nowhere.” Baltazar was standing behind Reidel’s car and began to move along the passenger side, he said.

“I was watching him. He slowly moved to the passenger’s side … and began to walk to the side of the car,” he testified.

Hirschy said Baltazar opened the door and got into the car where the girl was sitting. He said Reidel got out of the car screaming.

“I heard her say, ‘This is a carjacking,’ or something to that effect,” Hirschy testified.

Murrysville police Officer Christopher Smith testified the girl attacked Baltazar.

“She started to scream, kick and actually elbow the man in the stomach,” Smith said.

Baltazar fled toward the rear of the plaza where another officer found him crouching behind a Dumpster, Smith said. He was taken into custody and was identified by Reidel, her daughter and Hirschy.

Smith said a subsequent investigation revealed that Baltazar was an illegal alien.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/westmoreland/s_675224.html

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