A couple of weeks ago I got this letter from the Missouri Department of Revenue.
I called the Missouri Department of Revenue and spoke with a woman who,
while nice, didn't know what I was talking about. But she said she'd
see what she could find out.
While I waited, I called my bank and canceled the check. Luckily, it hadn't been cashed. I did the credit check. Everything looked good.
The
next morning, I missed the return call from the woman at the Department of
Revenue. When I returned her call, I got someone I thought was a
secretary. A woman named Betty. I explained my situation.
"I got a letter that said my check was stolen," I said.
"Yes, that's correct," Betty told me.
"How could that happen?"
"Well, a person was going to the bank, and they got carjacked," Betty said matter of factly.
"They got carjacked on the way to the bank?" I asked in disbelief.
"They did," she said.
"Wow."
"They shoved the person out of the car and took the car and the bank bags," Betty said.
"That's pretty serious."
"It is."
She
told me it had happened around the first of February in Kansas City.
She was guessing on the date, though.
I sent an e-mail to the Kansas City Police Department's public information officer, Darin Snapp, asking whether he knew anything about a carjacking that involved a Department of Revenue employee. He wrote back, "No
record with the info. you gave. We need more specific information (name
of victim, location) to do a search."
Info, however, was in short supply. I called the DOR back asked to
talk to someone in media relations. Betty sent me to Ted
Farnen, the Missouri Department of Revenue's director of communications. Farnen actually knew what I was
talking about and gave me enough information to get the police report: Cristy Snow, the officer manager for the 13th Street license office (run by the Downtown Council) inside the Fletcher Daniels Building, claimed she was robbed by a man with a gun while taking receipts to the bank.
"We have not seen the money since then," Farnen told me. "And it was checks and cash."
Farnen was reluctant to say anything that might compromise the investigation.
After talking to Farnen, I called Snapp at the KCPD. I gave him Snow's name and the date. The next morning, Snapp faxed me a copy of the police report. Here's what the police report says happened:
At 1:35 p.m. on February 2, the Kansas City Police responded to a reported carjacking at Missouri and Woodland. Officers spoke with Cristy Snow, who told them that she was taking receipts from the KC license office to deposit at Missouri Bank at 11th and Main. She'd missed the armored car delivery and had to make the bank run herself.
When she got to Missouri Bank, she said, a man with a semi-automatic pistol jumped her and told her to get in her car. The man sat in the passenger seat and directed Snow to Missouri and Woodland. Then he made her get out of the car and he drove off -- taking the car and the deposits, which were in the backseat in a cardboard box.
Snow called the cops. Officers searched the area and found the car parked at 521 Maple, about a half a block southeast of where they met Snow. No one was in the car and the deposits and car keys were gone. A detective took fingerprints from the car doors, and the police released the car to Snow and her husband.
Farnen told me that the Downtown Council "let go" of Snow after she claimed that she was robbed.
Sean O'Byrne of the Downtown Council told me they've been directed to not talk about the case since it's under "criminal investigation." He also couldn't give me any details on Snow's dismissal. But he did apologize, which was nice to hear.
My efforts to find Snow came up empty. Every number I called was either disconnected or wrong.
A couple of days ago, I got a letter from my bank. Long
story short, thanks to a compromised system at Heartland Payment
Systems, I'm getting a new debit card.
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