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Could the police have been less helpful?
Dec. 16th, 2005 03:19 pmSo, if you followed this post, telling the story of how Cayne's bank card was ripped off, despite the fact that the card never left our possession, here's the next part of the story...
We called the Suffolk County police to make a police report, because the fraudulent charges were all made on Long Island, in two different precincts in Suffolk County and both places refused to take a police report. One even told me that we had to come back to New York to make the report. Another told me that the report had to be made in the jurisdiction we lived in (which made very little sense to me.) So we called the Orange County Sherriff who told us that no, the report had to be made in New York, where the card was fraudulently used. Having been long time residents of the area, I figured someone in my family (Mom, Dad, brother or brother's girlfriend) might know someone on the force who, even if that person couldn't take a report, would know who in the world I needed to call to get a report, since the bank needs us to do that. During that conversation, my brother or Dad suggested that we call the district attorney directly. Problem solved. I called the DA and before I'd even finished telling the woman on the phone what had happened she said, "Oh, no problem. Let me transfer you." She proceeded to transfer me to the intake line, I left a message with my contact info and Cayne's work and cell number's, and we'll go from there.
What bothers me isn't that the police refused to take the report over the phone...I've dealt with them enough before to know not to expect that, but that no one seemed to be able to tell me simply to call the DA directly, but instead I was told we had to come back to Long Island or just simply refused, and told, "No, we won't take a report for that over the phone."
We'll see where it goes from here. We can actually identify the two legitimate tranactions we made on Long Island...one was a gas station, the other was a candy shop, where I bought some candy making supplies. If in fact the card information was taken on Long Island (the most likely scenario) then it may not be too hard to figure out where it was taken. But, we'll see what the DA says and where it goes from here.
We called the Suffolk County police to make a police report, because the fraudulent charges were all made on Long Island, in two different precincts in Suffolk County and both places refused to take a police report. One even told me that we had to come back to New York to make the report. Another told me that the report had to be made in the jurisdiction we lived in (which made very little sense to me.) So we called the Orange County Sherriff who told us that no, the report had to be made in New York, where the card was fraudulently used. Having been long time residents of the area, I figured someone in my family (Mom, Dad, brother or brother's girlfriend) might know someone on the force who, even if that person couldn't take a report, would know who in the world I needed to call to get a report, since the bank needs us to do that. During that conversation, my brother or Dad suggested that we call the district attorney directly. Problem solved. I called the DA and before I'd even finished telling the woman on the phone what had happened she said, "Oh, no problem. Let me transfer you." She proceeded to transfer me to the intake line, I left a message with my contact info and Cayne's work and cell number's, and we'll go from there.
What bothers me isn't that the police refused to take the report over the phone...I've dealt with them enough before to know not to expect that, but that no one seemed to be able to tell me simply to call the DA directly, but instead I was told we had to come back to Long Island or just simply refused, and told, "No, we won't take a report for that over the phone."
We'll see where it goes from here. We can actually identify the two legitimate tranactions we made on Long Island...one was a gas station, the other was a candy shop, where I bought some candy making supplies. If in fact the card information was taken on Long Island (the most likely scenario) then it may not be too hard to figure out where it was taken. But, we'll see what the DA says and where it goes from here.
