FARMINGTON – Police are asking for the public’s help in solving a break-in at a local pawn shop that occurred a week ago.
According to Detective Marc Bowering of the Farmington Police Department, the owner of Farmington Pawnsters at 184 Farmington Falls Road, reported “a substantial amount” of jewelry had been stolen from the shop. It occurred either late on Sunday, July 20 or into the early morning hours on Monday, July 21.
The shop, which opened this spring at the location on the corner of Farmington Falls Road at Franklin Avenue, offers new and used goods.
Bowering said it appeared the back door had been forced open.
“We’re tracking down leads and asking if anybody saw anything,” during the hours of the break-in to call the police department, Bowering said. The department’s number is 778-6311.
All the theft going on around the area is getting rediculous. Get a job people. Stop stealing from all the hard working folks who “EARN” what they have.
Dragonfly Ayup everyone should get a job, it would be nice if there were jobs for everyone that paid enough to pay their rent or mortgage. Have you heard about how many homeless people there are just our town. We live behind the church on rt. 2 that houses some homeless families who had homes they lost because they lost their jobs because of the economy. There really aren’t enough jobs for everyone. Not that I think that is any excuse for stealing but when you are living out of your car and have no prospects for a job and would work for anything, collect cans on the side of the road just to feed yourselves. But then you have companies that don’t pay enough or don’t give full time hours like China Mart and many other companies here and everywhere else.
There are families in town that are living in their cars, in the woods, in homeless shelters, which by the way have a waiting list a mile long for families, not just one person. You obviously are so out of touch with the reality of what is going on around you.
The banks and Wall Street have destroyed the economy while giving their executives million dollar bonuses for taking peoples home that the dam bank didn’t even have a loan on. Did you even hear about that? they foreclosed on homes the bank didn’t even have a right to and because of the way our system is so costly to fight something like this people who have owned their homes and don’t have a loan on them have lost them. And what happens? The banks get a fine and the people who lost their homes get huge legal bills and still never get their homes back.
I am surprised we have so few robberies right now, and it really isn’t getting any better. If you have a job feel lucky because I don’t see the economy getting any better real soon.
We are no longer a government of the people by the people for the people,
we have become a government of the politicians and banks and corporations
for the corporations and banks.
If people cannot find jobs in Farmington and have to resort to collecting cans (or stealing) here’s an idea…MOVE! Move to where there are jobs. The rural existence isn’t a birthright…if you cannot find the means to support yourself in an area with few employment opportunities head someplace that has them. Head Downeast to pick produce. Plenty of ‘help wanted’ signs down in Cumberland and York counties. I hear the unemployment in North Dakota is virtually zero. Stop the victim mentality.
Probably won’t get posted but…. a robbery right next door to the FPD, that’s pretty ballsy or stupid,
I’m just saying.
Did anyone check the Big Apple’s camera’s? Maybe they caught something.