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Contact the Sheriff. He is a higher authority than your city police. They are denying your rights as enumerated by our state constitution. And it is theft if after being informed they are not lawfully holding onto property and don't return it.
Washington Revised Code RCW 9A.56.010: Definitions. (b) Having any property or services in one's possession, custody or control as bailee, factor, lessee, pledgee, renter, servant, attorney, agent, employee, trustee, executor, administrator, guardian, or officer of any person, estate, association, or corporation, or as a public officer, or person authorized by agreement or competent authority to take or hold such possession, custody, or control, to secrete, withhold, or appropriate the same to his or her own use or to the use of any person other than the true owner or person entitled thereto; or
I could be reading this wrong, even though it was involved in a case when the case is done they need to give it back.
And it is the principal of the matter. Don't let them play games with you Sylvia. Have you filed a complaint? Do this and make sure you get a copy, so the complaint doesn't disappear.
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