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tripping You're just high or something." And I feel like I'm like, you know what? Maybe I'm just tripping. So I turned around and ended up going to a storage unit. While I'm sitting there waiting, I put my feet on the door frame. , I put my hands behind my head and leaned it back. I maybe fell asleep for like two minutes, two to five minutes, and then I woke up and I was completely surrounded by police officers from the front and from behind. To me, it felt like an army. There were police everywhere. They pointed their guns at me and they took me to the police station and asked me, "Where did you get the vehicle?" I borrowed it from that person." They knew it was stupid.

And they knew they were going to get me a conviction. From there they took me to jail. I have felonies for aggravated motor vehicle

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, and I also have a felony for vehicular eluding, i.e. fleeing from the police in a stolen vehicle I was able to help get the veterans unit up and running at the Jefferson County Jail I feel like being a veteran is what saved me from it all. by regular agents only. It was also run by veteran deputies. No one will ever know the bond that a veteran has, even if they have never met.

We had different programs, different types of counseling, better parenting, recovery, things like that. During that time, I set him up to meet with the auto

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team and pretty much told them how I stole the vehicles and what vehicles I stole. I guess in a sense, giving back a portion of what I've taken. Because ultimately my main goal is to spread the word to the public that you can protect yourself and your belongings. But I can be here to help educate you how to do it. I received a deferred sentence of 12 to 18 years as long as I could complete Veterans Treatment Court, which is intense, supervised probation.

It's for two years. Different phases. There are four phases. If I couldn't complete it successfully, they would throw out the suspension and then send me to DOC for the remaining time. While in Veterans Treatment Court, I was admitted to Harbor Lights Rehabilitation Center. If I wasn't a veteran coming out of prison, I would have had to return to a neighborhood. The VA is who I relied on to pay for rehab, unlike other people who relied on insurance. I had to go in different directions when it came to toxic masculinity, something I was very aware I had.

You know, being this big, bad, macho, street gangster man. Especially a man who has had very little guidance in life. I cut ties with pretty much everyone in my family, so I had no support other than the people I was with. With the VA they gave me that. So if I wasn't a veteran, I'd probably be dead or in jail to this day. The things that make a car or vehicle more attractive to steal, for example, is security. If there is no anti-theft device, such as a car alarm. If you have bags or personal items visible, that is another reason to steal them.

If you upgrade your vehicle with rims or sound systems and your car is flashy, those are reasons to steal that vehicle. My advice to drivers, for example, is not to be complacent. Store your personal belongings. Do not carry unnecessary things in your vehicle. No. 2, install car alarms, different devices like that. Anything that is remote or

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with Bluetooth can be tapped and stolen. The only real way to prevent a car from being stolen is to break a circuit somewhere inside the car, from the battery to the starter motor and from the battery to the ignition. I would always suggest breaking the passage between the starter and the battery.

The only way to do this is to manually place a switch that breaks that circuit. That switch must be manually flipped for it to start. If a car thief gets into a car and the car won't start, he won't waste time trying to figure out what's wrong. Yes, they will be able to enter, but they will not leave in their vehicle. I think of a vehicle as a starting point for other robberies. If I see that you have a garage door opener in your car, let's say it's in a parking lot, I'll steal your car. Most of the time people become so complacent that they can open their mail inside their vehicle.

Your address is in your email. I will bring your vehicle with your garage door opener to your house. You're giving me full access to your house, knowing that I just took your car from an underground garage in a different location. Keyless car theft is based on plugging in a computer program pretty much where it would check your codes for engine faults or things like that. Once you access the vehicle, you can connect that device and create a new key. People think that because you have a keychain they are safe, but in reality they are not. They are called broadcast thefts.

What they are doing is using a repeater amplifier to capture the signal from the key fob to the car so they can open the doors and start the vehicle. They can take it wherever they need to go and then recreate and renew a key chip for themselves. The theft of catalysts is on the rise. Catalytic converters contain palladium and platinum, two very precious metals that are highly sought after at the moment. Vehicles that sit higher are more likely to be attacked because they are easily accessible with greater clearance. The larger the catalyst, the more expensive it becomes.

Catalytic converters are not something I was ever involved in, due to the fact that it was an easy $200, but I can get more for the entire vehicle than for a catalytic converter. I feel that car theft has a huge impact on the automobile market. For one thing, insurance rates are rising because of this. Again, it is a way of punishing, in a sense, the owner of the vehicle. If Kias are increasing in auto theft, why do they sell these vehicles and then turn around and allow the auto insurance companies to increase their prices for the person purchasing them?

After the court process, the procedures and things like that, I got married, had children. I coach 10U AU softball. I have a full time job. I'm a foreman. I go to work, I come home to my family. I don't worry about where I'm going to sleep or where my next meal is coming from, you know? So my life now is the life of the American dream.