KC police finds another $250k worth of stolen property

Posted: Apr 18, 2022 / 12:12 PM CDT

Updated: Apr 18, 2022 / 12:13 PM CDT

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Officers from all over the metro hope the Kansas City Police Department will help them close stolen property cases.

Detectives announced Friday that they’d busted a huge theft case linked to storage units in Jackson County, Missouri and Johnson County, Kansas.

Earlier this month, Public Storage management called police to report suspicious behavior from a renter. The caller told police that the renter was cutting off locks and replacing them with his own locks to cover up the crime.

Originally, detectives said they’d found about $100,000 worth of stolen property. Since then, Kansas City police said they located another $250,000 worth of property stolen from area storage units.

It includes some interesting items.

Our detectives have recovered another $250,000 in stolen items connected to the thief who has been breaking into storage units and installing “fake” locks to cover up the crime.

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The police department shared pictures of some of the other property they recovered online.

If you believe your property was stolen, file a police report in the jurisdiction where the crime happened. Then email your case number and a list of your stolen property to metropropertycrimes@kcpd.org.

Police have a suspect in custody, but charges have not yet been filed in the case.