I was having a wonderful sunday afternoon woke up worked on a site for about 6 hrs, then went out to a friends house to pick up something for my truck. I was gone for about 45 minutes, to return to my house and find John Cooper standing outside. He lives in the same building and didnt have the key to the main entry way so he told me that he didnt have a key and wasnt able to get back into the building so I let him in and, he walked with me up the stairs to his apartment.
I went upstairs and looked went to my chump change stash which is my 5 dollar bills, 1 dollar bills and 10 dollar bills. Each time I go to the store I always spend a $20 and then I add the change to the jar. I noticed that the jar was empty. So I immediately went over to the neighbors house John Cooper to see if he had seen anyone comming into the building. He didnt answer the door when I knocked on it, I didnt knock loud just a regular knock. Its like didnt I just let you in the building 2 minutes ago, Duh its not like your not in there.
Anyhow I went back into my place and I dumped out the rest of the change that was in the Vase.in the vase there was a Gold Key which I didnt put there. So out of curiosity I tried the key in my door and the key fit into the lock and opened the door. I looked at this key more closely and I noticed that this was not my key but the cuts that were in the key were just about identical 2 mine only one minor differece.
I remember that the landlord told me when I moved in here that new locks had been installed and the keys will open the door downstairs as well as your door. So obviously this key had to of been a key to one of the other places in the building.
Then I remember a few days prior he borrowed my key for an extended period of time. This key that was left in my apartment when I first saw it I thought mabe an old x girlfriend could have still had one. Anyway I saw this kids girlfriend getting dropped off from work out my window. I ran over because I knew she wouldnt have a chance to talk to him I could ask her for the key, she would more than likely give it to me because she had no idea what had taken place. Even if she did know about it she would have to give me the key because if they didnt than that would automatically mean that they knew something about the key or something about a key was going on.
I didnt raise no questions about a key. I simply said can I borrow your key. "Lets Play Cards"
Low and behold it was an exact match to the key the burglar left in my place.
So I took the key the key straight to the police station.
Then I returned I learn from John Coopers girlfriend that she was at work when he did it and she has kids and wants nothing to do with what he does.
The land lord also told me that Schlage Door lock division was the name of the company that installed the locking system.
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