Need advice

[Seved]

First and formost I live in Cali so I am not sure if all laws are equal to Colorado's.

Story: Was at a graduation party, my girlfriend left her purse outside during the party. When we woke up this morning her car was not in the place that she parked it. So i figured it might have towed. After calling all towing companies they did not have her car. Well i asked people around the house if they had seen her car and someone told us they saw her car parked down the street. So we went and found her car down the street with all the windows down and all the insurance/registration shit all around the car.

Her cell phone and ipod was stolen from the car. It is really apparnt that someone took her car out joy riding while everyone was sleeping.

Question: Is it to late to report to the cops to get prints to find out who took the car. We have a pretty good idea who took the car, but there is no way to prove it -- The Fingerprints will do this. The car was not damaged at all but it was stolen for the night. So pretty much all I am asking is that, if we get prints (are able to at least) will we have a strong enough case to push forward with legal action.

P.S. The person who we think took the car, already has a criminal record for taking other people's cars and going on joyrides with them.

[Martian]

I would say your screwed unless you can get a bunch of witnesses together and go down to the station to make a report. Othrewise they have no reason to file a report other then your word.

[Slow96GSR]

If there are prints present and they are on record you can press charges. You or your insurance would have to call the police/crime lab to have someone come out and check for them and lift them. Don't clean the car and use it as little as possible.

[Seved]

I would say your screwed unless you can get a bunch of witnesses together and go down to the station to make a report. Othrewise they have no reason to file a report other then your word.


So we would have to have some witnesses for them to look for prints within the car?

[Martian]

I would say so. They generally want sufficient reason that a crime was committed.

[chrisbarnett01]

Some cities won't fingerprint for that. They deem it a waste of resources

[Richard T]

Such as Aurora...

[Mik]

When my car was stolen, they said that if the car wasnt used in anouther crime, they wouldnt print it.

[rmcdaniels]

I've never seen them print a car unless it as used in another crime, so unless it was parked in top of a dead body or full of drugs, you are probably SOL.

At this point, from the legal perspective I'd advise kidnapping the person, locking them in your basement in secure cell that you build, hobbling them, breaking their hands, then torturing them and feeding them dog food for the next 20 years while piping in Britney Spears music or other forms of psychological torture until they are a broken, drooling shell of their former self, then releasing them in the woods somewhere to live out the rest of their life.

[smithz]

I've never seen them print a car unless it as used in another crime, so unless it was parked in top of a dead body or full of drugs, you are probably SOL.

At this point, from the legal perspective I'd advise kidnapping the person, locking them in your basement in secure cell that you build, hobbling them, breaking their hands, then torturing them and feeding them dog food for the next 20 years while piping in Britney Spears music or other forms of psychological torture until they are a broken, drooling shell of their former self, then releasing them in the woods somewhere to live out the rest of their life.
:werd: and :werd:

[stu]

You can ALWAYS make a police report about something, no matter when it happened or where. It's called a counter report if it's after the fact. I make my insureds do it all the time.