Our Stolen Car

So last Sunday Brad and I were getting ready to go to Costco, it was snowing and Alex was throwing a fit about having a heavy coat on so instead of fighting with him I put a lighter jacket on him and went outside to warm up the Subaru. I went back inside to get Alex and Brad and I talked to Shelley for a COUPLE of minutes. When I walked outside, something seemed off. I looked around and NO CAR! I looked out on the road to see if Brad had moved it and then came to the realization that in 2 minutes it had been stolen on a Sunday morning at 10:30! Who does that? Anyways, we called the police and one happened to be driving up the street when I called. Brad flagged him down. We filed our report, the officer, who was very nice, told us that 99% of the time you get the car back, usually stuff is stolen, but the car isn't trashed or anything, and usually it's just someone walking down the street that spots an opportunity. We noticed there were several cops driving up and down the street and they told us they were up here on something else. So, we spent the rest of the morning trying to figure out what we were going to do about.
About 2:30 that afternoon I got a call from a deputy telling me they had recovered the car, that they guy who stole it was a robbery suspect, and had been arrested. She said the car as far as she knew was intact, but they had to keep the car for evidence and needed fingerprinting and was going to be searched.
We found out later that this robbery suspect had been charged with 10 counts of armed robbery. He was they guy who has been robbing pizza stores, and some other food chains.
The reason the cop were up here Sunday morning is they were acting on a tip that the guy's grandmother lives up here, and we were just unlucky enough that he saw the cops and was trying to walk away and happened to be walking down our street when we started the car.
We got our car back on Tuesday, the only things missing were some of Brad's cd's and his sunglasses. It has been a bit of an ordeal, with fee's get the car out of impound a couple hundred dollars, and Brad had to go to the city and county building to get some paperwork saying they were releasing the car. He said the people there remind him of DMV people not very nice or happy to be working there. The guy at the impound was the nicest guy and even stayed late since they didn't have the keys and Brad and to come all the way home to get them and drive back over there. All in all it's been an interesting experience. We are still talking to the police once a day letting us know what is going on. The deputy in charge of our case is very nice and has been extremely helpful, and we appreciate all she has been doing for us. Right now we know that the guy going to prison for a long time.

The police searching our car after the guy was arrested.