Art Pollard and his medals
Bobo sends us a link to the story about Art Pollard, a 68-year-old Navy retiree. When he retired to Alabama, he gave his medals to his daughter who lived in Modesto, California. A short time later, her apartment was robbed and the thieves took Art’s medals with them.
The medals were found in a stolen car shortly afterward and they’ve been sitting in an evidence room for years until officers in Modesto decided to return the awards to their rightful owner;
Recently, Modesto police said their Property and Evidence Technicians were going through items ready to be trashed when they discovered the military medals.
Police said one of their technicians did some research and tracked Pollard down. When the detective called him, he was shocked.
“I couldn’t believe he went to all that trouble, just to find me,” Pollard said.
Pollard said the Modesto Police Department mailed the medals to a local Alabama police department where he was reunited with his medals.
Category: Crime
Well done, officers. Thanks for doing the right thing here, even if it wasn’t technically your job to do it.
I guess there are still a few left in CA who don’t qualify as “granola”.
There are a lot of them in CA that don’t qualify, the problem is they’re the decent hard working ones who don’t get any media coverage and tend to live outside the large cesspools known as cities in CA.
My experiences while working in CA recently on some internet storefront building indicates there are a great many non-liberal normal folks working hard every day on the west coast. They unfortunately are suffering from the same problem I have here in Western Mass, too many jagoffs in the cities so our votes out here in the hinterland are almost of no consequence.
It is good to see a great job done by these officers and to know there are folks who still do the right thing even when it’s not required.
By “Western Mass” I assume that you aren’t including the swath that runs along I-91 from the state line to Greenfield.
Or along the Mass Pike between exits 1 and 5.
BZ to the officers of the Modesto PD for making this happen!
BZ to the Modesto PD, good on ya!!
Nice!
Typical of the media, we only hear about cops when they screw up. It’s nice to read about good cops doing a good job. Speaking of which, I owe a local officer a thank you for help he gave me a couple of weeks ago.
Good story to tread this morning
Modesto is inland in the San Joaquin Valley and home to lots of hard working people. Castle AFB was a few miles up the road. Largest employer is E&J Gallo Winery and with the Gallo’s being great family people with integrity it resonates through the town.
Great Job Modesto PD Officers. These small acts of kindness are what keep my faith in the BLUE!
Above and beyond, good to see.
Wow, wow, wow. Yes it is great they were returned; yes it was great someone cared – probably a vet who became a police officer who knew what the medals represented. But how many years after the crime did they stay in the evidence locker? “For years.” No one in all that time went back through old case files to find the victims and return their property? No, yahoo for doing the right thing, but thumbs down for the service to the victim – this is just plain incompetence on the part of this police department and most police departments which see property crime as victim-less until it involves items which are not replaceable and are only important to a few individuals. It appears from the article many items were thrown away or given away from the evidence locker. If all items were seen as important, as these items, they would have gone through just as rigorous a search for their rightful owners as these medals. Love to hear if this is true!