“Police recover goods stolen from Vashon home” |
| Police recover goods stolen from Vashon home Posted: 20 Sep 2010 10:30 AM PDT Monday, September 20, 2010 Nearly all the computer and video equipment stolen from the Vashon home of two award-winning filmmakers was returned on Saturday, four days after the couple reported the burglary. David Rothmiller and LD Thompson, who made the highly acclaimed documentary "For My Wife," came home Tuesday to find $30,000 in computers, video equipment and other goods taken from their home office. The burglars apparently broke in Tuesday afternoon, while the two men were in Seattle tending to the needs of their 12-week-old foster child. The couple was devastated by the far-reaching loss, which included their two laptops containing all of their professional work and intellectual property. On Saturday, however, they got a call from a King County Sheriff's deputy, who had them come to the sheriff's office at Courthouse Square to claim their stolen goods. According to Rothmiller, deputies recovered the equipment from a Vashon home. The sheriff's office could not be reached for comment Sunday. "It's kind of a miracle," Rothmiller said. He and Thompson, he added, "are nothing but grateful." The perpetrators used a crowbar to break open a ground-level French door near their office. They walked out of the home with a $6,000 video camera, their two laptops, a 42-inch television, two portable DVD players, a keyboard, a Nikon camera, microphones, a tape recorder and other items. Their home, an artful stucco structure at the end of a private drive off of Wax Orchard Road, is currently on the market. Last week, on that same day, another house on Wax Orchard Road was broken into, just 10 blocks from Rothmiller and Thompson's home. Sgt. John Urquhart, a spokesman for the sheriff's office, however, said it seemed like a very different kind of burglary: It happened at night, and only a dartboard was taken. Rothmiller estimates that 75 percent of what was taken from their home — including their two laptops — was returned. He and Thompson, he said, are impressed by the fast police work. "We have such respect for them," he said of the detectives on the case. Rothmiller and Thompson run the company Trick Dog Films and recently held a screening of "For My Wife" at Vashon Theatre. They moved to Vashon four years ago. This article was originally published in the Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber on September 17, 2010. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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