Good news, with a happy ending. The sad thing is property crime just isn't a priority for law enforcement. Unless its a jewel heist, your police report is just going into a soon to be forgotten file. A better system needs to be implimated to motivate either law enforcement or others to do the looking for stolen goods that are resold. Maybe a bounty system paid for by insurance companies and forced restitution by the thief to pay the organization or individuals who solve the crime and return the goods. Clearly only one person (in this case) had any skin in the game to motivate and solve this crime (and at that had to jump through hoops to get the law to even clamp the perp!)