Natalie Wind was preparing for her Falcon paper route at 10 p.m. the day before her newspapers were to be delivered. With over four-hundred Gazette and Denver Post customers, it takes Wind 12 to 14 hours to complete her deliveries. She can’t afford to miss a delivery. If there is a missed newspaper, she gets a wake-up call from her boss and loses a few hours of sleep because she has to redeliver.Wind had been receiving complaints daily for three weeks from the same location. Eventually, she surmised that someone was stealing a paper from the top row of her stack for this particular area every morning.The complaints and lack of sleep was wearing on Wind. She needed to catch the newspaper thief. How? She could call the cops and file a complaint, but against whom? Would a cop stakeout a newspaper box to catch the thief? Not! It’s a frickin newspaper!Wind remembered a small ad in The New Falcon Herald about investigations.She found the number and talked with Jay Soulia, an investigator with Life Force Investigations.He accepted the assignment. Read on to see how the “paper caper” went down. Soulia arrived at the stakeout at 0400 hour, military time. At 0446 hours, he saw a vehicle heading west on South Blaney Road toward a group of paper boxes at the intersections of South Blaney and Meridian roads. The vehicle stopped at the cluster of paper boxes. Someone sitting on the driver’s side of the car reached out of the window and removed a newspaper from the far left row, which consisted of three boxes. The car sped off heading north on Meridian Road. Soulia followed the suspect. At a stop sign at the intersection of Meridian and Garrett roads, Soulia identified the suspect and recorded the silver color of the car and the make, model and license plate number.In just 46 minutes, the newspaper thief was identified. He was apprehended, and Wind filed charges.Is it “Monkey Business” or organized crime? We will keep you posted.Quotes“I’ve never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.”– Winston Bennet, University of Kentucky basketball forward.“Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.”– Marion Barry, Former Mayor, Washington, D.C.“Smoking kills. If youe killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life.”– Brooke Shields, during an inverview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking campaign
