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  • Room Involuntarily Vacated

    The interesting things you find out when you work the Night Audit.

    Had a person come to the desk, and identify himself as being with the <local> Police department. Apparently, one of our long term guests was distributing illegal substances on our property. These were particularly annoying guests that would wait 'til the last minute to extend their stay, and then come up to pay cash.

    Apparently the police occupied one of the rooms next door to them today (it was put Out of Order under the reason "Meg's* friend"), and executed a search warrant.

    As my title indicates, they were involuntarily vacated from our property, and relocated to less accommodating accommodations.

    So, because of the nature of the departure, their room is filled with expensive property. So I left a note for Housekeeping (per the Officer's instructions) that a member of management should accompany them to ensure accusations of theft are able to be dealt with promptly.

    Just another day in paradise,

    SC

    * Meg is the manager who put the room OOO.
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  • #2
    What's really going to be fun is when all their associates start showing up trying to claim their stuff. Not sure what the policy is at your place, but here we can only release items to the person who was the registered guest (unless it's a purse or wallet with ID that we can check...then we'll let the person who's ID is there to get it). The only other way we can release the items to someone else is if the registered guest contacts us to make arrangements. People will throw a sh*t when I won't release the lost & found to them instead (or in some cases, let them into the room before housekeeping even starts to bring in lost & found).
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    • #3
      I wonder how that will work, or if the police will want to go through stuff as there could be drugs, evidence, stolen property, etc. I remember at my hotel we got a call from local police that one of our guests got arrested, for something like drunk and disorderly, and wasn't going to make his check-out time that morning, so I was sent to pack up his stuff and move it to storage.

      Hee, I kinda want an update. I'm sure they're NOT going to be fun to deal with when they come back though; probably blame you guys for being arrested.
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      • #4
        Quoth LillFilly View Post
        I wonder how that will work, or if the police will want to go through stuff as there could be drugs, evidence, stolen property, etc.
        They already executed the search warrant, and per the Officer, even searched the ceiling tiles, so I'm fairly sure that the personal belongings are free of illegal substances.

        SC
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        • #5
          Still odd that they would leave the stuff there. Wouldn't they suspect that some of it might be stolen or something? What do you do with "abandonded" possessions when a guest vacates the room and leaves the stuff there?

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          • #6
            My husband's car got stolen a few years back, and when they recovered it, the cops took stuff that identified the thieves (who were not in the car when a tow truck driver caught the LoJack signal and picked it up). The cops took prescription drugs and a CD of photos. They left us 3 full duffel bags of personal possessions - clothes, shoes, blankets. I thought that was really weird too. Eventually we gave up on the cops wanting any of it and donated it to Goodwill.

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            • #7
              Quoth Raveni View Post
              Still odd that they would leave the stuff there. Wouldn't they suspect that some of it might be stolen or something? What do you do with "abandonded" possessions when a guest vacates the room and leaves the stuff there?
              I guess my euphemisms weren't clear, they were arrested (involuntarily vacated) and put in jail (the less accommodating accommodations).

              SC
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              • #8
                One would think they would impound everything there as evidence, however. I'm surprised they left it behind, doesn't that mess up re-renting out the room until it's gone?

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                • #9
                  Quoth BroSCFischer View Post
                  As my title indicates, they were involuntarily vacated from our property, and relocated to less accommodating accommodations.
                  That sounds so negative. A way to make it sound more positive is, "They were relocated to more secure accommodations."
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                  • #10
                    Quoth eltf177 View Post
                    One would think they would impound everything there as evidence, however.
                    I imagine that the police only have so much room to impound stuff, and thus only take what they need for evidentiary purposes. Low end stuff will be given to the HK that found it after 3 months. I don't know what happens to high end stuff.

                    Quoth eltf177 View Post
                    I'm surprised they left it behind, doesn't that mess up re-renting out the room until it's gone?
                    Well, yes, but since the room was occupied for more than a month, the room has to be deep cleaned anyway.
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                    • #11
                      Quoth Ironclad Alibi View Post
                      That sounds so negative.
                      You could always leave the Crime Scene tape up on the door with a note: "Next time, don't steal our towels"
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                      • #12
                        Quoth EricKei View Post
                        You could always leave the Crime Scene tape up on the door with a note: "Next time, don't steal our towels"
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                        • #13
                          Quoth EricKei View Post
                          You could always leave the Crime Scene tape up on the door with a note: "Next time, don't steal our towels"
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                          • #14
                            This thread just reminded me of something funny that happened years ago. Every so often the local police would use our hotel to train their drug sniffing dogs. They would plant the drugs through out the hotel for the dogs to find. One day when they were doing their training a guest happened to be smoking pot and the dog sniffed him out. (not that you have to be a specially trained dog to smell pot). Can you imagine his surprise when the cop and dog knocked on his door!
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                            • #15
                              Quoth BroSCFischer View Post
                              So, because of the nature of the departure, their room is filled with expensive property.
                              That you describe the property as "expensive" makes me wonder if it wasn't stolen, and then traded for drugs.

                              Maybe you should talk to the Burglary Squad of your local PD and see if they want to check for serial numbers or other identifying information.

                              Especially if there is more than one of certain types of expensive property, like jewelry.
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