police detective left bus card on our front door

[CloudBee]

Has anyone had this happen before?

We live in a pretty quiet neighborhood, and all of our neighbors seem to keep to themselves.

I assume a card left on the door = they want you to call them back. I tried, and there was no answer. (Likely after hours.) So I just shot him an email.

I hate not knowing why he wants to speak with us. It makes me worry that something happened in our neighborhood.

[rosiedozie]

Weird! I assume they wanted you to get in touch. Hope it's nothing serious.

[thatgirl2478]

Yep. Happened to me several years ago. Turns out they were looking for a guy who had previously lived at our address and was apparently still using it as his car registration address... creepy yes.

The guy wasn't generally dangerous -- he had skipped town, was over due on alimony/child support or something, out on parole for domestic battery or something like that. We never heard of the guy or had any sort of suspicious behavior around our house. We weren't worried.

[nicoliae]

Very odd. I'd google his name and make sure he's truly a cop and not a fake before you really talk to him.

[Deleted]

I would maybe call the police department and see if they can give you info? And email too in case the officer checks after hours? The suspense would kill me! Hope everything's okay!

[CloudBee]

Sept 18, 2012 19:26:57 GMT -5 thatgirl2478 said:

Yep. Happened to me several years ago. Turns out they were looking for a guy who had previously lived at our address and was apparently still using it as his car registration address... creepy yes.

This is what Kore said, too!

ETA: The old address resident part, not the car reg part.

[dr.girlfriend]

I had a detective knock on my door when I was in an apartment. Someone had been raped nearby. But then he got all mad and suspicious when I said I hadn't heard the sirens and (apparently) helicopter. I think he thought I was trying to duck out of being a witness or something when I was actually just oblivious, apparently!

[AAM2012]

Maybe you car registration is late and he's coming to write you a ticket

[CloudBee]

Sept 18, 2012 19:27:28 GMT -5 v said:

I would maybe call the police department and see if they can give you info? And email too in case the officer checks after hours? The suspense would kill me! Hope everything's okay!

Ugh, I just did this, hit the correct # to be directed to the detectives department, someone answered, asked who left their card, then immediately transferred me to his voicemail.

SO annoyed, because I said I had tried calling with no answer and was curious if anyone ELSE could give me info. Rude. He should have just said "sorry, you will have to wait for him to call you back". He took the easy way out transferring to vmail knowing I had just tried that guys line. Jerk. "Leave him a message".

I did!

Okay, the suspense is getting to me.

[dr.girlfriend]

Sept 18, 2012 19:33:27 GMT -5 CloudBee said:

Sept 18, 2012 19:27:28 GMT -5 v said:

I would maybe call the police department and see if they can give you info? And email too in case the officer checks after hours? The suspense would kill me! Hope everything's okay!

Ugh, I just did this, hit the correct # to be directed to the detectives department, someone answered, asked who left their card, then immediately transferred me to his voicemail.

SO annoyed, because I said I had tried calling with no answer and was curious if anyone ELSE could give me info. Rude. He should have just said "sorry, you will have to wait for him to call you back". He took the easy way out transferring to vmail knowing I had just tried that guys line. Jerk. "Leave him a message".

I did!

Okay, the suspense is getting to me.

Maybe ask your neighbors if he stopped by and caught one of them in?

[CloudBee]

Sept 18, 2012 19:36:08 GMT -5 dr.girlfriend said:

Sept 18, 2012 19:33:27 GMT -5 CloudBee said:

Ugh, I just did this, hit the correct # to be directed to the detectives department, someone answered, asked who left their card, then immediately transferred me to his voicemail.

SO annoyed, because I said I had tried calling with no answer and was curious if anyone ELSE could give me info. Rude. He should have just said "sorry, you will have to wait for him to call you back". He took the easy way out transferring to vmail knowing I had just tried that guys line. Jerk. "Leave him a message".

I did!

Okay, the suspense is getting to me.

Maybe ask your neighbors if he stopped by and caught one of them in?

We don't really know them, though we've been here for 6+ yrs. Old lady on the right won't speak with anyone, turns her back or goes inside her house. Family on right hardly speaks English but waves hi. They appear to be out of town.

Everyone else seems pretty quiet, too, and we haven't said much more than hi.

Oh, and it's late, storming, and we're under a tornado watch, LOL.

[mrsw101109]

It happened to my coworker. The police had arrested someone who had been stealing people's mail. He had some of her mail on him as well as other peoples. When police questioned him, he claimed that she asked him to collect her mail and thy wanted to know if it was true.

[Norticprincess]

Sept 18, 2012 19:43:07 GMT -5 mrsw101109 said:

It happened to my coworker. The police had arrested someone who had been stealing people's mail. He had some of her mail on him as well as other peoples. When police questioned him, he claimed that she asked him to collect her mail and thy wanted to know if it was true.

Mail theft -- the detective that handle our mail theft at our apartment left his card in the other door for our apartment (it looked like it was for a second unit, not ours). The detective ask went through the entire neighborhood. Never did find the culprit (I think it was maillady being lazy and not delievering it to the proper address - we had problems with her failing to find our mailbox several times, things getting delievered to the wrong address etc. The post office didn't want to deal with and told me to call the police as their system said it had been delievered)


We've had the constable stop by looking for the previous owners. We bought a foreclosure. The guy was real nice, was working off the address the people had left on whatever they were wanted for.

[Deleted]

I had a sheriff deputy drop by looking for the previous owner soon after I moved in. I would like to say he was the only person who stopped by looking for her.