Chattanooga Police want you to attended a special meeting on the subject of pawn shops and stolen property. It takes place tonight at seven o'clock. Those who wish to attend should go to the Chattanooga Police Department Community room on Amnicola Highway. The Chattanooga Police department is the only law enforcement agency in this region with a Unit devoted totally to tracking and recovering stolen property from pawn shops. In the year 2000 the unit recovered items valued at more than seventy five thousand dollars from area pawn shops.
Detectives say they only count the cases where recoveries are made.
There were a lot of other cases in which the property had gone through the pawn shops but the property had already been disposed of in which case there was no control number issued. Police say the bill goes before the Commerce committee next week.