About the news video on the web, I found somewhere that if you decrease the video acceleration slider bar in the preferences/options section of Windows Media Player, that often this problem can be solved.

Indeed, justice is served ... Mr. Hess will be spending Christmas in a cozy jail cell ... I hope he doesn’t drop the soap!

Justice is served!

The Christmas spirit is alive and well in Wilmington! Very happy that you have gotten some closure from all of this.
Best Wishes!

Looks like they "finally" arrested him. Since mine it looks like he's hit about 17+ other people in our downtown area.

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From Wilmington Police Department News Release
A 43-year-old man suspected in a string of daytime burglaries in Wilmington's downtown historic district and other neighborhoods was charged Saturday with 21 counts of breaking and entering and larceny, and two counts of attempted break-ins.

Gregory Matthew Hess, of Wilmington, was arrested after uniformed patrol officers spotted him and identified Hess as the suspect sought in the rash of burglaries that began more than two weeks ago and primarily targeted home electronics. In addition to the break-ins and thefts, Hess also was cited for two probation violations.

According to a Wilmington Police Department news release, 17 of the charges against Hess stem from incidents reported in the historic residential neighborhoods, and six remaining charges are from incidents reported in the Sunset Park neighborhood.

Hess was booked into the New Hanover County Detention Facility late Saturday afternoon, where he remains held without bail.
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So far I haven't gotten anything else back. Since the lady that gave us Mr. Hess' name to turn into the cops (back in October) said she paid him $120 we actually dropped by her house yesterday and gave her a check for $150 as a "thank you" and made her a Christmas wreath for her door. I'm sure she thought we'd never return her money..but I promised her when we left that I would, and now I feel good that we did.

Find anything?

we turned in information from the first lady that bought the stuff. she wouldnt' buy it unless he showed id, so she wrote it down. we have heard "zero" from the cops after we turned in the name.

the one cop did say this guy likes to hide things and then try to resell it or try to bring it back looking for a reward. tomorrow during the day i'm gonna walk behind the stores across the street and see if i can find anything in the woods.

It just goes to show, that thief may have thought it was easy to steal your stuff, but it was also easy to catch him (they know who he is now, right?).

We all know it but, now, with this that has happened to you we see the treasures we have in our homes, if we ever have finantial problems we have a very good guaranty in it though let us hope nothing similar happens to us ever.

I think there's a good 1/3 still missing. I'm thinking 2-3 tubs (about what i got back today) and the 2 big RC cars.