Residents beware!!!  If you have items listed for sale on Facebook, Offer Up, or other sites, please know there are people out there scoping these sites in hopes to get enough information from your posts to obtain your address.  It is fairly easy to put a few pieces of information together from your posts and come up with a likely location of whatever you are selling. 

Currently, ATV's are the hot item.  Please be careful when drafting your post.  If you use your actual name as your Facebook account, it is very easy to get an address based on that and your general location.  These people will do some scouting to make sure they are on the right track and then they strike during the overnight, early morning hours.  They often even know where the item is located on your property based on the pictures you post.  TAKE NOTE:  If you post something for sale on these sites, there is a very good chance others will know exactly where it is and how to get it.  Be proactive.... take pictures in neutral locations or with backdrops, blur out license plates or other possibly identifiable things the pictures, NEVER put your phone number or address in the post, say things like...."message me to schedule a date and time to view this item since I have to retrieve it from my storage facility".  

These are definitely challenging times we live in.....lock your stuff up, lock your doors, set your alarms, take your keys/valuables out of your vehicles, etc..  If you have the financial means, get surveillance.  It may deter crimes and may certainly assist us in our investigations.  They are not that expensive these days, and they are extremely valuable to investigators.