A North Sound man says tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of equipment was stolen from him and he’s willing to pay for information that leads to an arrest.
You could spend months just checking out the collection of machinery and eclectic odds and ends on Don Wang's rural Arlington property near Smokey Point, and apparently that's what thieves did.
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“Farm equipment, landscaping equipment -- it's all missing,” Wang told us.
He splits his time between the Seattle area and California, and he believes while he was out of state, thieves continually ransacked his property, taking in all between $50,000 and $75,000 worth of stuff.
They broke locks to get into his buildings.
“Anything that was a smaller piece of equipment they could lift up and carry across the pasture to the truck -- that's what they took,” Wang said, including car batteries, laptops and chainsaws.
Fed up and believing there is very little police can do, Wang decided to take things into his own hands. He posted an ad on Craigslist listing everything that was stolen and offering a substantial reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the responsible parties.
"It's in the thousands,” Wang said of the reward.
"I understand that without the surveillance camera, without absolute proof, we have to have an insider come out and tell us what actually happened and who was involved."
Wang says the post has already generated some responses -- but only from people who say they've been victims of the same kind of theft.
"They responded to the Craigslist ad and were curious if their situation had anything to do with the situation here,” Wang explained.
Wang says the crime means he'll be making some changes. He brought on a worker to watch the property 24/7, and he'll sell off the most valuable of what's left -- so if the thieves do come back, at least they'll get the eclectic odds and ends -- and not the machinery.
"At this point we can't secure it safely, so we'll have to make some other plans,” Wang concluded.
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