Dear Editor:
My name is Amber Lee Ettinger and I am a resident of West New York. I have an issue and was curious to see if you could help me out.
This past summer – July 1, 2010 to be exact – I was moving from The Grandview to Bulls Ferry. During the process of my move, I got over $7000 worth of items stolen from me in the loading dock area. There was computer surveillance, and I saw two groups of people coming in, ripping apart taped boxes, and taking my belongings. I have the video footage. The people were not residents of my building so I could not identify them. A police report was filed, and they weren’t able to help. I did my best “Nancy Drew” and went around to neighboring buildings to check their footage, and watched hours and hours of it myself to see if I could find anything. No luck. I went on the news, and even posted a YouTube video. No luck.
Amongst the stolen items was a video camera with footage from my brother’s wedding reception here in the United States. He was married in China, and my family was not able to attend the wedding. All I had was that footage, and it is gone. It breaks my heart, I can never replace that, but I can replace the clothes, Playstation, pictures, copper frames, lamp shades, steam cleaner, mini vac, liquor, cordless phone etc.
Months have passed, and I woke up this past week with the urge to post signs using still shots from the camera of the five people seen taking my stuff.
I couldn’t believe it when I actually received a phone call from the couple who had mistakenly taken my lampshades thinking they were free.
He saw my sign in Starbucks and called me right away; he felt terrible. I was so happy he was honest. He told me more info about the other three, who were not with him, and told me to keep trying.
I do not want to get anyone in trouble, and I am even offering a reward to have my stuff brought back to me.
If you can help, please feel free to e-mail me back. Thank you.
Amber Lee Ettinger
amberleeonline@yahoo.com