Quoted from Dallas_Pin:
It would be international theft and outside of FPD hands unless he has an active NCIC warrant (National) and they will extradite. If he is not returning several thousands of dollars of merchandise, it will likely be a felony. I’m not a lawyer, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express; my recommendation would be to gather documents from everyone who sent Mirco playfields and plastics and not had them returned. Document everything and present this to the FBI. If the amount is high enough and they are located in Germany, you’ll likely get some traction and noise. I don’t think JJP and Stern really want to be associated with a company being investigated by the FBI for theft and more. Just saying
There is no such thing as an NCIC warrant. NCIC stands for National Crime Information Center. Any jurisdictional warrant can be entered into their database...federal, local, etc. They maintain a database for law enforcement to go check criminal history and if there are any outstanding warrants. I think you were referring to an international warrant, and no jurisdiction would extradite for something as frivolous as a box of missing playfields. Nor would the FBI or US Attorney look at anything international that wasnt into the tens of millions of dollars in damages. They wont look at anything local under a million.
The sad truth is, there would be no real legal remedy. This is the risk we take doing business outside of the country. The only effective course of action is open forum.
KS
