As Law Enforcement continues the battle against property crimes, one of the challenges that Laclede County Sheriff David Millsap says that most stolen property gets traded for drugs very quickly, so it’s sometimes hard to track it down. However, one tool that they are able to utilize does give them some help….

Sheriff Millsap said it’s important for people to write down serial numbers and take pictures of their property so that when stolen property is recovered it can be matched back to the owner.