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Resident urges ordinance to regulate scrap dealers after multiple thefts
Summary
A Third Ward resident urged the council to adopt an ordinance requiring scrap metal dealers to follow pawnshop-style standards after several thefts from her property, including an antique blacksmith forge; she provided a police report number and said recyclers were uncooperative.
Cheryl Shagner, a Third Ward resident, urged the Davenport City Council Committee of the Whole to draft an ordinance that would hold scrap metal dealers to the same standards as pawnshops after repeated thefts from her property.
Shagner described the theft of a heavy antique blacksmith forge from her front yard, saying the item had survived a 2016 tornado but had been stolen recently. She said…
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