What can I do?

Long story short, I got in a fight with my roommate over her stealing my stuff, and when the cops came they decided that I was the aggressor.

I was given a no contact order, so I saw the apartment for about an hour after I got out of jail when I was escorted by the police to grab my things. It was then that I realized that my PS5 in both of my computers were missing among other things. Today I went back for an hour or so under the judge's conditions, and almost everything that I had in the living room or kitchen is missing.

The roommate is adamant that we don't go into her master bedroom, because I'm sure that's where she's keeping all the things that she stole from me. I'm just wondering if there's a way that I can report this to the police and they could get a search warrant and take a look in her room for the things that I am missing. It seems absurd to me that she should just get away with this. I know I want to take her to civil court, but I haven't decided if I should do small claims court or a case with a lawyer.

I'm in Minnesota. What do you guys think I should do? Should I try to report this to the police or the sheriff? Are there any good lawyers you know?

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u/LizzoMyBizzo — 1 day ago

What can I do?

Long story short, I got in a fight with my roommate over her stealing my stuff, and when the cops came they decided that I was the aggressor.

I was given a no contact order, so I saw the apartment for about an hour after I got out of jail when I was escorted by the police to grab my things. It was then that I realized that my PS5 in both of my computers were missing among other things. Today I went back for an hour or so under the judge's conditions, and almost everything that I had in the living room or kitchen is missing.

The roommate is adamant that we don't go into her master bedroom, because I'm sure that's where she's keeping all the things that she stole from me. I'm just wondering if there's a way that I can report this to the police and they could get a search warrant and take a look in her room for the things that I am missing. It seems absurd to me that she should just get away with this. I know I want to take her to civil court, but I haven't decided if I should do small claims court or a case with a lawyer.

I'm in Minnesota. What do you guys think I should do? Should I try to report this to the police or the sheriff? Are there any good lawyers you know?

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u/LizzoMyBizzo — 1 day ago

What can I do?

Long story short, I got in a fight with my roommate over her stealing my stuff, and when the cops came they decided that I was the aggressor.

I was given a no contact order, so I saw the apartment for about an hour after I got out of jail when I was escorted by the police to grab my things. It was then that I realized that my PS5 in both of my computers were missing among other things. Today I went back for an hour or so under the judge's conditions, and almost everything that I had in the living room or kitchen is missing.

The roommate is adamant that we don't go into her master bedroom, because I'm sure that's where she's keeping all the things that she stole from me. I'm just wondering if there's a way that I can report this to the police and they could get a search warrant and take a look in her room for the things that I am missing. It seems absurd to me that she should just get away with this. I know I want to take her to civil court, but I haven't decided if I should do small claims court or a case with a lawyer.

I'm in Minnesota. What do you guys think I should do? Should I try to report this to the police or the sheriff? Are there any good lawyers you know?

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u/LizzoMyBizzo — 1 day ago

I'm in Minnesota

Long story short, I got in a fight with my roommate over her stealing my stuff, and when the cops came they decided that I was the aggressor.

I was given a no contact order, so I saw the apartment for about an hour after I got out of jail when I was escorted by the police to grab my things. It was then that I realized that my PS5 in both of my computers were missing among other things. Today I went back for an hour or so under the judge's conditions, and almost everything that I had in the living room or kitchen is missing.

The roommate is adamant that we don't go into her master bedroom, because I'm sure that's where she's keeping all the things that she stole from me. I'm just wondering if there's a way that I can report this to the police and they could get a search warrant and take a look in her room for the things that I am missing. It seems absurd to me that she should just get away with this. I know I want to take her to civil court, but I haven't decided if I should do small claims court or a case with a lawyer.

I'm in Minnesota. What do you guys think I should do? Should I try to report this to the police or the sheriff? Are there any good lawyers you know?

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u/LizzoMyBizzo — 1 day ago

Minnesota

Long story short, I got in a fight with my roommate over her stealing my stuff, and when the cops came they decided that I was the aggressor.

I was given a no contact order, so I saw the apartment for about an hour after I got out of jail when I was escorted by the police to grab my things. It was then that I realized that my PS5 in both of my computers were missing among other things. Today I went back for an hour or so under the judge's conditions, and almost everything that I had in the living room or kitchen is missing.

The roommate is adamant that we don't go into her master bedroom, because I'm sure that's where she's keeping all the things that she stole from me. I'm just wondering if there's a way that I can report this to the police and they could get a search warrant and take a look in her room for the things that I am missing. It seems absurd to me that she should just get away with this. I know I want to take her to civil court, but I haven't decided if I should do small claims court or a case with a lawyer.

I'm in Minnesota. What do you guys think I should do? Should I try to report this to the police or the sheriff? Are there any good lawyers you know?

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u/LizzoMyBizzo — 1 day ago
▲ 3 r/AskLegal+1 crossposts

Long story short, I got in a fight with my roommate over her stealing my stuff, and when the cops came they decided that I was the aggressor.

I was given a no contact order, so I saw the apartment for about an hour after I got out of jail when I was escorted by the police to grab my things. It was then that I realized that my PS5 in both of my computers were missing among other things. Today I went back for an hour or so, and almost everything that I had in the living room or kitchen is missing.

The roommate is adamant that we don't go into her master bedroom, because I'm sure that's where she's keeping all the things that she stole from me. I'm just wondering if there's a way that I can report this to the police and they could get a search warrant and take a look in her room for the things that I am missing. It seems absurd to me that she should just get away with this. I know I want to take her to civil court, but I haven't decided if I should do small claims court or a case with a lawyer.

What do you guys think I should do? Should I try to report this to the police or the sheriff? Are there any good lawyers you know?

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u/LizzoMyBizzo — 1 day ago

I'm an abused vulnerable adult, but I end up in jail!?!

I just spent 6 days in jail and while I was there my roommate stole all of my electronics, jewelry, ceremonial katana and many other items. The cops aren't taking this seriously because they're treating me like I am a criminal and my roommate is the victim. Let me explain...

I moved a couple months ago and the apartment I moved into was for people with disabilities and already had a woman living there for a couple months before I moved in. Throughout my time there, I had multiple different problems with the way the roommate acted. I have OCPD and PTSD and have grown up with multiple different hoarders, so I keep my area obsessively clean. This girl is disgustingly dirty and has said that cleaning is her "pet peeve" 😒

She would leave the kitchen a hot mess no matter what she was doing. If she was cooking, there would be dirty dishes everywhere and spices all over the counter and appliances moved around the countertops. When she would bring food home, she would shove it in weird corner locations in the kitchen instead of putting them in the pantry. This drove me nuts, especially because I can't do what I need to do in the kitchen if it's destroyed because of whatever she has done, so I spent a lot of time cleaning up after her. This is despite the fact that she has a county worker that comes every day and should be helping her clean these things up.

Since I had moved, I lost two electronic pepper grinders. It became the pepper grinder mystery; did the movers forget to pack it? Did the county worker who unpacked my items steal it? Did it get left on the moving truck? They were also a couple of other things that I had been missing, but they weren't a huge deal.

When I moved in, it wasn't long before I saw a cockroach! GROSS 🤢 SO I CALLED THE OFFICE AND THEY SENT PEST CONTROL OUT. This meant we had to empty everything out of the kitchen before pest control came. After they came, I was missing the cover that I use in the microwave for my food. And asked my roommate about it quite a few times, and she kept saying that she was still looking for it but it had to be somewhere in her room. I had also been waiting for a package from a friend from out of state with a birthday present in it for me. She told me that it was in a bright pink envelope and that I should have reached me by now.

One weekend, my roommate left to stay at her boyfriend's and I decided to check her room for my microwave cover. Needless to say, I found the microwave cover, along with my missing pepper grinders and a few other things that were mine that she had clearly stolen. I also found that bright pink envelope in her room, opened, and empty, clearly meaning she took whatever was inside.

It was very early in the morning at this point, but I decided to call the non-emergency Burnsville police phone number to report this theft. For some reason the cop wanted to know what the birthday present was, and I didn't know, so I had to call my friend and ask. I returned the call to the police to let them know what it was and the cop asked if my roommate was home to which I said no. He then told me to call him back when she was home.

At this point, I'm steaming because she stole my stuff from the apartment and stuff from my mail. She in fact had another package that she had opened from somebody else's unit, meaning she's stealing everyone's mail. But I couldn't believe the audacity of her to seal my birthday present.

So, she comes home later that afternoon, and I start loudly telling her that she needs to give me my birthday present back. She tells me that I need to take my belongings off of the entertainment center in the living room because that's her furniture. I tell her I will do that after she returns my birthday present. She then looks at me and says I'm going to call the cops on you. I laughed in her face and told her to go ahead, I already called them on you to report your theft.

This apparently made her really mad, because then she hit me in the face. I of course retaliated and hit her back and she fell down. She stands back up, and hits me in the face again, which leads to me pushing her and she falls after hitting the chair behind her. While she's on the floor, I hit her in the face twice, and then I walk away. I was always told that The person who throws the first punch is the aggressor, so I felt as though I was just acting in self-defense. Unfortunately, when the cops came they did not feel that way and they arrested me for domestic violence.

I got out of jail on Friday and was told that I had a no contact order. Of course the first thing that I want to do is go home and cuddle with my two cats. I spoke with the owner of the apartment while I was on my way back, and she told me the roommate was gone for the weekend and that I could stay during that time to rest and start packing my things. However, I was only home a couple hours before the police came knocking on my door again and arrested me for violating the no contact order. It turns out, the order was for the apartment and not the roommate, which I had misunderstood. So, here I go back to jail for a second time in literally the same outfit I was arrested in the first time.

While being gone in jail, my roommate has decided to go through all of my belongings and steal whatever she feels like. The two hours I was home on Friday, I noticed that my PlayStation 5 was missing. I also noticed that both of my laptops and my webcam were missing, among other things. When I got out of jail the second time, I made sure that I had a police escort so I could go get my things. During this time, it was quite clear that she had continued to move my things around and take what she wanted. I was most excited to smoke a cigarette once I was out. And I know for sure that I left my pack on the deck. But once I got up to the apartment, she seemed to have either thrown away or taken both that pack of cigarettes and my backup pack of cigarettes, along with all of my lighters and ashtrays, my bowl for my medical cannabis and my grinder. In fact, the more that I look around, the more I realize she's taken just about everything.

The first things I realized are missing are my wallet and my cat Shadow. Of course I have two police women with me as my escorts, so eventually I convinced one of them to go into her bedroom and ask where my wallet is. She tells the cop that it is in her cat stroller. It was there, but it was buried underneath a bunch of her stuff like she was trying to hide it. Super sus. Then the cop goes in to ask about Shadow, and she lets Shadow out of her room. I told them about the missing PlayStation 5 and my missing PlayStation 3. The cop goes in first to ask about the PlayStation 5, to which the roommate says she doesn't know where it is. She then goes to ask about the PlayStation 3, to which the roommate decides to hand it over.

At this point, I'm missing so many belongings that I tell the police that they need to file a report for my missing items so that I can use that report for a claim on my renters insurance to get my things back, even though we all know my stuff is in that roommates room. Thankfully they wrote up the report. For some reason, the roommate had also moved my 55-in TV so that was one of the things I decided to pack up and take with me. Once I got it to my new spot, I plugged it in and realized that it's trashed. Just visually completely destroyed.

My friend and I stuffed as we could into her car, and I'm staying with her now for the short-term. But I still have the majority of my belongings in that apartment. This time, before I left I tried to put everything into my bedroom and bathroom and lock the doors, but the locks are fairly easy to open from the outside if you know what you're doing. I hope she doesn't know what she's doing. I can't go back there now until I schedule an appointment with the county sheriff and then we can go together to pack up the rest of my things. I left a message for the sheriff today, but who knows how long that's going to take. Every second that my stuff sits in her vicinity, the more she's going to steal from me, the more she's going to break my stuff, the more she's going to throw things I love in the trash.

I have a court date on the 24th of this month, which will hopefully let me explain my side of the story, but I don't think that the resolution of this case is going to get me any of my personal property back. I also think it's really frustrating to know that she has faced literally no consequences for her actions and I had to spend 6 days in jail. I'm thinking that I want to sue her for my missing property as well as pain and suffering, the chipped tooth I have now, and abuse of a vulnerable adult, since I am a disabled person.

As a disabled person, I'm pretty poor so I can't go out and hire some fancy lawyer to do all of this for me. I'm hoping somebody out there has some advice for me regarding both the court case on the 24th for the original domestic violence charge, as well as how to pursue a civil suit against this roommate in the best and least expensive way possible. Honestly, any resources for anything that you think that I could use would be appreciated. I feel like my life is just spiraling out of control, spiraling down the drain, disintegrating into nothingness, never to be seen again. I could use any and all help combating the treachery and getting back to a normal life. Thanks in advance guys!

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u/LizzoMyBizzo — 1 month ago

I'm an abused vulnerable adult, but I end up in jail!?!

I just spent 6 days in jail and while I was there my roommate stole all of my electronics, jewelry, ceremonial katana and many other items. The cops aren't taking this seriously because they're treating me like I am a criminal and my roommate is the victim. Let me explain...

I moved a couple months ago and the apartment I moved into was for people with disabilities and already had a woman living there for a couple months before I moved in. Throughout my time there, I had multiple different problems with the way the roommate acted. I have OCPD and PTSD and have grown up with multiple different hoarders, so I keep my area obsessively clean. This girl is disgustingly dirty and has said that cleaning is her "pet peeve" 😒

She would leave the kitchen a hot mess no matter what she was doing. If she was cooking, there would be dirty dishes everywhere and spices all over the counter and appliances moved around the countertops. When she would bring food home, she would shove it in weird corner locations in the kitchen instead of putting them in the pantry. This drove me nuts, especially because I can't do what I need to do in the kitchen if it's destroyed because of whatever she has done, so I spent a lot of time cleaning up after her. This is despite the fact that she has a county worker that comes every day and should be helping her clean these things up.

Since I had moved, I lost two electronic pepper grinders. It became the pepper grinder mystery; did the movers forget to pack it? Did the county worker who unpacked my items steal it? Did it get left on the moving truck? They were also a couple of other things that I had been missing, but they weren't a huge deal.

When I moved in, it wasn't long before I saw a cockroach! GROSS 🤢 SO I CALLED THE OFFICE AND THEY SENT PEST CONTROL OUT. This meant we had to empty everything out of the kitchen before pest control came. After they came, I was missing the cover that I use in the microwave for my food. And asked my roommate about it quite a few times, and she kept saying that she was still looking for it but it had to be somewhere in her room. I had also been waiting for a package from a friend from out of state with a birthday present in it for me. She told me that it was in a bright pink envelope and that I should have reached me by now.

One weekend, my roommate left to stay at her boyfriend's and I decided to check her room for my microwave cover. Needless to say, I found the microwave cover, along with my missing pepper grinders and a few other things that were mine that she had clearly stolen. I also found that bright pink envelope in her room, opened, and empty, clearly meaning she took whatever was inside.

It was very early in the morning at this point, but I decided to call the non-emergency Burnsville police phone number to report this theft. For some reason the cop wanted to know what the birthday present was, and I didn't know, so I had to call my friend and ask. I returned the call to the police to let them know what it was and the cop asked if my roommate was home to which I said no. He then told me to call him back when she was home.

At this point, I'm steaming because she stole my stuff from the apartment and stuff from my mail. She in fact had another package that she had opened from somebody else's unit, meaning she's stealing everyone's mail. But I couldn't believe the audacity of her to seal my birthday present.

So, she comes home later that afternoon, and I start loudly telling her that she needs to give me my birthday present back. She tells me that I need to take my belongings off of the entertainment center in the living room because that's her furniture. I tell her I will do that after she returns my birthday present. She then looks at me and says I'm going to call the cops on you. I laughed in her face and told her to go ahead, I already called them on you to report your theft.

This apparently made her really mad, because then she hit me in the face. I of course retaliated and hit her back and she fell down. She stands back up, and hits me in the face again, which leads to me pushing her and she falls after hitting the chair behind her. While she's on the floor, I hit her in the face twice, and then I walk away. I was always told that The person who throws the first punch is the aggressor, so I felt as though I was just acting in self-defense. Unfortunately, when the cops came they did not feel that way and they arrested me for domestic violence.

I got out of jail on Friday and was told that I had a no contact order. Of course the first thing that I want to do is go home and cuddle with my two cats. I spoke with the owner of the apartment while I was on my way back, and she told me the roommate was gone for the weekend and that I could stay during that time to rest and start packing my things. However, I was only home a couple hours before the police came knocking on my door again and arrested me for violating the no contact order. It turns out, the order was for the apartment and not the roommate, which I had misunderstood. So, here I go back to jail for a second time in literally the same outfit I was arrested in the first time.

While being gone in jail, my roommate has decided to go through all of my belongings and steal whatever she feels like. The two hours I was home on Friday, I noticed that my PlayStation 5 was missing. I also noticed that both of my laptops and my webcam were missing, among other things. When I got out of jail the second time, I made sure that I had a police escort so I could go get my things. During this time, it was quite clear that she had continued to move my things around and take what she wanted. I was most excited to smoke a cigarette once I was out. And I know for sure that I left my pack on the deck. But once I got up to the apartment, she seemed to have either thrown away or taken both that pack of cigarettes and my backup pack of cigarettes, along with all of my lighters and ashtrays, my bowl for my medical cannabis and my grinder. In fact, the more that I look around, the more I realize she's taken just about everything.

The first things I realized are missing are my wallet and my cat Shadow. Of course I have two police women with me as my escorts, so eventually I convinced one of them to go into her bedroom and ask where my wallet is. She tells the cop that it is in her cat stroller. It was there, but it was buried underneath a bunch of her stuff like she was trying to hide it. Super sus. Then the cop goes in to ask about Shadow, and she lets Shadow out of her room. I told them about the missing PlayStation 5 and my missing PlayStation 3. The cop goes in first to ask about the PlayStation 5, to which the roommate says she doesn't know where it is. She then goes to ask about the PlayStation 3, to which the roommate decides to hand it over.

At this point, I'm missing so many belongings that I tell the police that they need to file a report for my missing items so that I can use that report for a claim on my renters insurance to get my things back, even though we all know my stuff is in that roommates room. Thankfully they wrote up the report. For some reason, the roommate had also moved my 55-in TV so that was one of the things I decided to pack up and take with me. Once I got it to my new spot, I plugged it in and realized that it's trashed. Just visually completely destroyed.

My friend and I stuffed as we could into her car, and I'm staying with her now for the short-term. But I still have the majority of my belongings in that apartment. This time, before I left I tried to put everything into my bedroom and bathroom and lock the doors, but the locks are fairly easy to open from the outside if you know what you're doing. I hope she doesn't know what she's doing. I can't go back there now until I schedule an appointment with the county sheriff and then we can go together to pack up the rest of my things. I left a message for the sheriff today, but who knows how long that's going to take. Every second that my stuff sits in her vicinity, the more she's going to steal from me, the more she's going to break my stuff, the more she's going to throw things I love in the trash.

I have a court date on the 24th of this month, which will hopefully let me explain my side of the story, but I don't think that the resolution of this case is going to get me any of my personal property back. I also think it's really frustrating to know that she has faced literally no consequences for her actions and I had to spend 6 days in jail. I'm thinking that I want to sue her for my missing property as well as pain and suffering, the chipped tooth I have now, and abuse of a vulnerable adult, since I am a disabled person.

As a disabled person, I'm pretty poor so I can't go out and hire some fancy lawyer to do all of this for me. I'm hoping somebody out there has some advice for me regarding both the court case on the 24th for the original domestic violence charge, as well as how to pursue a civil suit against this roommate in the best and least expensive way possible. Honestly, any resources for anything that you think that I could use would be appreciated. I feel like my life is just spiraling out of control, spiraling down the drain, disintegrating into nothingness, never to be seen again. I could use any and all help combating the treachery and getting back to a normal life. Thanks in advance guys!

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u/LizzoMyBizzo — 1 month ago

I'm an abused vulnerable adult, but I end up in jail!?!

I just spent 6 days in jail and while I was there my roommate stole all of my electronics, jewelry, ceremonial katana and many other items. The cops aren't taking this seriously because they're treating me like I am a criminal and my roommate is the victim. Let me explain...

I moved a couple months ago and the apartment I moved into was for people with disabilities and already had a woman living there for a couple months before I moved in. Throughout my time there, I had multiple different problems with the way the roommate acted. I have OCPD and PTSD and have grown up with multiple different hoarders, so I keep my area obsessively clean. This girl is disgustingly dirty and has said that cleaning is her "pet peeve" 😒

She would leave the kitchen a hot mess no matter what she was doing. If she was cooking, there would be dirty dishes everywhere and spices all over the counter and appliances moved around the countertops. When she would bring food home, she would shove it in weird corner locations in the kitchen instead of putting them in the pantry. This drove me nuts, especially because I can't do what I need to do in the kitchen if it's destroyed because of whatever she has done, so I spent a lot of time cleaning up after her. This is despite the fact that she has a county worker that comes every day and should be helping her clean these things up.

Since I had moved, I lost two electronic pepper grinders. It became the pepper grinder mystery; did the movers forget to pack it? Did the county worker who unpacked my items steal it? Did it get left on the moving truck? They were also a couple of other things that I had been missing, but they weren't a huge deal.

When I moved in, it wasn't long before I saw a cockroach! GROSS 🤢 SO I CALLED THE OFFICE AND THEY SENT PEST CONTROL OUT. This meant we had to empty everything out of the kitchen before pest control came. After they came, I was missing the cover that I use in the microwave for my food. And asked my roommate about it quite a few times, and she kept saying that she was still looking for it but it had to be somewhere in her room. I had also been waiting for a package from a friend from out of state with a birthday present in it for me. She told me that it was in a bright pink envelope and that I should have reached me by now.

One weekend, my roommate left to stay at her boyfriend's and I decided to check her room for my microwave cover. Needless to say, I found the microwave cover, along with my missing pepper grinders and a few other things that were mine that she had clearly stolen. I also found that bright pink envelope in her room, opened, and empty, clearly meaning she took whatever was inside.

It was very early in the morning at this point, but I decided to call the non-emergency Burnsville police phone number to report this theft. For some reason the cop wanted to know what the birthday present was, and I didn't know, so I had to call my friend and ask. I returned the call to the police to let them know what it was and the cop asked if my roommate was home to which I said no. He then told me to call him back when she was home.

At this point, I'm steaming because she stole my stuff from the apartment and stuff from my mail. She in fact had another package that she had opened from somebody else's unit, meaning she's stealing everyone's mail. But I couldn't believe the audacity of her to seal my birthday present.

So, she comes home later that afternoon, and I start loudly telling her that she needs to give me my birthday present back. She tells me that I need to take my belongings off of the entertainment center in the living room because that's her furniture. I tell her I will do that after she returns my birthday present. She then looks at me and says I'm going to call the cops on you. I laughed in her face and told her to go ahead, I already called them on you to report your theft.

This apparently made her really mad, because then she hit me in the face. I of course retaliated and hit her back and she fell down. She stands back up, and hits me in the face again, which leads to me pushing her and she falls after hitting the chair behind her. While she's on the floor, I hit her in the face twice, and then I walk away. I was always told that The person who throws the first punch is the aggressor, so I felt as though I was just acting in self-defense. Unfortunately, when the cops came they did not feel that way and they arrested me for domestic violence.

I got out of jail on Friday and was told that I had a no contact order. Of course the first thing that I want to do is go home and cuddle with my two cats. I spoke with the owner of the apartment while I was on my way back, and she told me the roommate was gone for the weekend and that I could stay during that time to rest and start packing my things. However, I was only home a couple hours before the police came knocking on my door again and arrested me for violating the no contact order. It turns out, the order was for the apartment and not the roommate, which I had misunderstood. So, here I go back to jail for a second time in literally the same outfit I was arrested in the first time.

While being gone in jail, my roommate has decided to go through all of my belongings and steal whatever she feels like. The two hours I was home on Friday, I noticed that my PlayStation 5 was missing. I also noticed that both of my laptops and my webcam were missing, among other things. When I got out of jail the second time, I made sure that I had a police escort so I could go get my things. During this time, it was quite clear that she had continued to move my things around and take what she wanted. I was most excited to smoke a cigarette once I was out. And I know for sure that I left my pack on the deck. But once I got up to the apartment, she seemed to have either thrown away or taken both that pack of cigarettes and my backup pack of cigarettes, along with all of my lighters and ashtrays, my bowl for my medical cannabis and my grinder. In fact, the more that I look around, the more I realize she's taken just about everything.

The first things I realized are missing are my wallet and my cat Shadow. Of course I have two police women with me as my escorts, so eventually I convinced one of them to go into her bedroom and ask where my wallet is. She tells the cop that it is in her cat stroller. It was there, but it was buried underneath a bunch of her stuff like she was trying to hide it. Super sus. Then the cop goes in to ask about Shadow, and she lets Shadow out of her room. I told them about the missing PlayStation 5 and my missing PlayStation 3. The cop goes in first to ask about the PlayStation 5, to which the roommate says she doesn't know where it is. She then goes to ask about the PlayStation 3, to which the roommate decides to hand it over.

At this point, I'm missing so many belongings that I tell the police that they need to file a report for my missing items so that I can use that report for a claim on my renters insurance to get my things back, even though we all know my stuff is in that roommates room. Thankfully they wrote up the report. For some reason, the roommate had also moved my 55-in TV so that was one of the things I decided to pack up and take with me. Once I got it to my new spot, I plugged it in and realized that it's trashed. Just visually completely destroyed.

My friend and I stuffed as we could into her car, and I'm staying with her now for the short-term. But I still have the majority of my belongings in that apartment. This time, before I left I tried to put everything into my bedroom and bathroom and lock the doors, but the locks are fairly easy to open from the outside if you know what you're doing. I hope she doesn't know what she's doing. I can't go back there now until I schedule an appointment with the county sheriff and then we can go together to pack up the rest of my things. I left a message for the sheriff today, but who knows how long that's going to take. Every second that my stuff sits in her vicinity, the more she's going to steal from me, the more she's going to break my stuff, the more she's going to throw things I love in the trash.

I have a court date on the 24th of this month, which will hopefully let me explain my side of the story, but I don't think that the resolution of this case is going to get me any of my personal property back. I also think it's really frustrating to know that she has faced literally no consequences for her actions and I had to spend 6 days in jail. I'm thinking that I want to sue her for my missing property as well as pain and suffering, the chipped tooth I have now, and abuse of a vulnerable adult, since I am a disabled person.

As a disabled person, I'm pretty poor so I can't go out and hire some fancy lawyer to do all of this for me. I'm hoping somebody out there has some advice for me regarding both the court case on the 24th for the original domestic violence charge, as well as how to pursue a civil suit against this roommate in the best and least expensive way possible. Honestly, any resources for anything that you think that I could use would be appreciated. I feel like my life is just spiraling out of control, spiraling down the drain, disintegrating into nothingness, never to be seen again. I could use any and all help combating the treachery and getting back to a normal life. Thanks in advance guys!

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u/LizzoMyBizzo — 1 month ago

I'm an abused vulnerable adult, but I end up in jail!?!

I just spent 6 days in jail and while I was there my roommate stole all of my electronics, jewelry, ceremonial katana and many other items. The cops aren't taking this seriously because they're treating me like I am a criminal and my roommate is the victim. Let me explain...

I moved a couple months ago and the apartment I moved into was for people with disabilities and already had a woman living there for a couple months before I moved in. Throughout my time there, I had multiple different problems with the way the roommate acted. I have OCPD and PTSD and have grown up with multiple different hoarders, so I keep my area obsessively clean. This girl is disgustingly dirty and has said that cleaning is her "pet peeve" 😒

She would leave the kitchen a hot mess no matter what she was doing. If she was cooking, there would be dirty dishes everywhere and spices all over the counter and appliances moved around the countertops. When she would bring food home, she would shove it in weird corner locations in the kitchen instead of putting them in the pantry. This drove me nuts, especially because I can't do what I need to do in the kitchen if it's destroyed because of whatever she has done, so I spent a lot of time cleaning up after her. This is despite the fact that she has a county worker that comes every day and should be helping her clean these things up.

Since I had moved, I lost two electronic pepper grinders. It became the pepper grinder mystery; did the movers forget to pack it? Did the county worker who unpacked my items steal it? Did it get left on the moving truck? They were also a couple of other things that I had been missing, but they weren't a huge deal.

When I moved in, it wasn't long before I saw a cockroach! GROSS 🤢 SO I CALLED THE OFFICE AND THEY SENT PEST CONTROL OUT. This meant we had to empty everything out of the kitchen before pest control came. After they came, I was missing the cover that I use in the microwave for my food. And asked my roommate about it quite a few times, and she kept saying that she was still looking for it but it had to be somewhere in her room. I had also been waiting for a package from a friend from out of state with a birthday present in it for me. She told me that it was in a bright pink envelope and that I should have reached me by now.

One weekend, my roommate left to stay at her boyfriend's and I decided to check her room for my microwave cover. Needless to say, I found the microwave cover, along with my missing pepper grinders and a few other things that were mine that she had clearly stolen. I also found that bright pink envelope in her room, opened, and empty, clearly meaning she took whatever was inside.

It was very early in the morning at this point, but I decided to call the non-emergency Burnsville police phone number to report this theft. For some reason the cop wanted to know what the birthday present was, and I didn't know, so I had to call my friend and ask. I returned the call to the police to let them know what it was and the cop asked if my roommate was home to which I said no. He then told me to call him back when she was home.

At this point, I'm steaming because she stole my stuff from the apartment and stuff from my mail. She in fact had another package that she had opened from somebody else's unit, meaning she's stealing everyone's mail. But I couldn't believe the audacity of her to seal my birthday present.

So, she comes home later that afternoon, and I start loudly telling her that she needs to give me my birthday present back. She tells me that I need to take my belongings off of the entertainment center in the living room because that's her furniture. I tell her I will do that after she returns my birthday present. She then looks at me and says I'm going to call the cops on you. I laughed in her face and told her to go ahead, I already called them on you to report your theft.

This apparently made her really mad, because then she hit me in the face. I of course retaliated and hit her back and she fell down. She stands back up, and hits me in the face again, which leads to me pushing her and she falls after hitting the chair behind her. While she's on the floor, I hit her in the face twice, and then I walk away. I was always told that The person who throws the first punch is the aggressor, so I felt as though I was just acting in self-defense. Unfortunately, when the cops came they did not feel that way and they arrested me for domestic violence.

I got out of jail on Friday and was told that I had a no contact order. Of course the first thing that I want to do is go home and cuddle with my two cats. I spoke with the owner of the apartment while I was on my way back, and she told me the roommate was gone for the weekend and that I could stay during that time to rest and start packing my things. However, I was only home a couple hours before the police came knocking on my door again and arrested me for violating the no contact order. It turns out, the order was for the apartment and not the roommate, which I had misunderstood. So, here I go back to jail for a second time in literally the same outfit I was arrested in the first time.

While being gone in jail, my roommate has decided to go through all of my belongings and steal whatever she feels like. The two hours I was home on Friday, I noticed that my PlayStation 5 was missing. I also noticed that both of my laptops and my webcam were missing, among other things. When I got out of jail the second time, I made sure that I had a police escort so I could go get my things. During this time, it was quite clear that she had continued to move my things around and take what she wanted. I was most excited to smoke a cigarette once I was out. And I know for sure that I left my pack on the deck. But once I got up to the apartment, she seemed to have either thrown away or taken both that pack of cigarettes and my backup pack of cigarettes, along with all of my lighters and ashtrays, my bowl for my medical cannabis and my grinder. In fact, the more that I look around, the more I realize she's taken just about everything.

The first things I realized are missing are my wallet and my cat Shadow. Of course I have two police women with me as my escorts, so eventually I convinced one of them to go into her bedroom and ask where my wallet is. She tells the cop that it is in her cat stroller. It was there, but it was buried underneath a bunch of her stuff like she was trying to hide it. Super sus. Then the cop goes in to ask about Shadow, and she lets Shadow out of her room. I told them about the missing PlayStation 5 and my missing PlayStation 3. The cop goes in first to ask about the PlayStation 5, to which the roommate says she doesn't know where it is. She then goes to ask about the PlayStation 3, to which the roommate decides to hand it over.

At this point, I'm missing so many belongings that I tell the police that they need to file a report for my missing items so that I can use that report for a claim on my renters insurance to get my things back, even though we all know my stuff is in that roommates room. Thankfully they wrote up the report. For some reason, the roommate had also moved my 55-in TV so that was one of the things I decided to pack up and take with me. Once I got it to my new spot, I plugged it in and realized that it's trashed. Just visually completely destroyed.

My friend and I stuffed as we could into her car, and I'm staying with her now for the short-term. But I still have the majority of my belongings in that apartment. This time, before I left I tried to put everything into my bedroom and bathroom and lock the doors, but the locks are fairly easy to open from the outside if you know what you're doing. I hope she doesn't know what she's doing. I can't go back there now until I schedule an appointment with the county sheriff and then we can go together to pack up the rest of my things. I left a message for the sheriff today, but who knows how long that's going to take. Every second that my stuff sits in her vicinity, the more she's going to steal from me, the more she's going to break my stuff, the more she's going to throw things I love in the trash.

I have a court date on the 24th of this month, which will hopefully let me explain my side of the story, but I don't think that the resolution of this case is going to get me any of my personal property back. I also think it's really frustrating to know that she has faced literally no consequences for her actions and I had to spend 6 days in jail. I'm thinking that I want to sue her for my missing property as well as pain and suffering, the chipped tooth I have now, and abuse of a vulnerable adult, since I am a disabled person.

As a disabled person, I'm pretty poor so I can't go out and hire some fancy lawyer to do all of this for me. I'm hoping somebody out there has some advice for me regarding both the court case on the 24th for the original domestic violence charge, as well as how to pursue a civil suit against this roommate in the best and least expensive way possible. Honestly, any resources for anything that you think that I could use would be appreciated. I feel like my life is just spiraling out of control, spiraling down the drain, disintegrating into nothingness, never to be seen again. I could use any and all help combating the treachery and getting back to a normal life. Thanks in advance guys!

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u/LizzoMyBizzo — 1 month ago

I'm an abused vulnerable adult, but I end up in jail!?!

I just spent 6 days in jail and while I was there my roommate stole all of my electronics, jewelry, ceremonial katana and many other items. The cops aren't taking this seriously because they're treating me like I am a criminal and my roommate is the victim. Let me explain...

I moved a couple months ago and the apartment I moved into was for people with disabilities and already had a woman living there for a couple months before I moved in. Throughout my time there, I had multiple different problems with the way the roommate acted. I have OCPD and PTSD and have grown up with multiple different hoarders, so I keep my area obsessively clean. This girl is disgustingly dirty and has said that cleaning is her "pet peeve" 😒

She would leave the kitchen a hot mess no matter what she was doing. If she was cooking, there would be dirty dishes everywhere and spices all over the counter and appliances moved around the countertops. When she would bring food home, she would shove it in weird corner locations in the kitchen instead of putting them in the pantry. This drove me nuts, especially because I can't do what I need to do in the kitchen if it's destroyed because of whatever she has done, so I spent a lot of time cleaning up after her. This is despite the fact that she has a county worker that comes every day and should be helping her clean these things up.

Since I had moved, I lost two electronic pepper grinders. It became the pepper grinder mystery; did the movers forget to pack it? Did the county worker who unpacked my items steal it? Did it get left on the moving truck? They were also a couple of other things that I had been missing, but they weren't a huge deal.

When I moved in, it wasn't long before I saw a cockroach! GROSS 🤢 SO I CALLED THE OFFICE AND THEY SENT PEST CONTROL OUT. This meant we had to empty everything out of the kitchen before pest control came. After they came, I was missing the cover that I use in the microwave for my food. And asked my roommate about it quite a few times, and she kept saying that she was still looking for it but it had to be somewhere in her room. I had also been waiting for a package from a friend from out of state with a birthday present in it for me. She told me that it was in a bright pink envelope and that I should have reached me by now.

One weekend, my roommate left to stay at her boyfriend's and I decided to check her room for my microwave cover. Needless to say, I found the microwave cover, along with my missing pepper grinders and a few other things that were mine that she had clearly stolen. I also found that bright pink envelope in her room, opened, and empty, clearly meaning she took whatever was inside.

It was very early in the morning at this point, but I decided to call the non-emergency Burnsville police phone number to report this theft. For some reason the cop wanted to know what the birthday present was, and I didn't know, so I had to call my friend and ask. I returned the call to the police to let them know what it was and the cop asked if my roommate was home to which I said no. He then told me to call him back when she was home.

At this point, I'm steaming because she stole my stuff from the apartment and stuff from my mail. She in fact had another package that she had opened from somebody else's unit, meaning she's stealing everyone's mail. But I couldn't believe the audacity of her to seal my birthday present.

So, she comes home later that afternoon, and I start loudly telling her that she needs to give me my birthday present back. She tells me that I need to take my belongings off of the entertainment center in the living room because that's her furniture. I tell her I will do that after she returns my birthday present. She then looks at me and says I'm going to call the cops on you. I laughed in her face and told her to go ahead, I already called them on you to report your theft.

This apparently made her really mad, because then she hit me in the face. I of course retaliated and hit her back and she fell down. She stands back up, and hits me in the face again, which leads to me pushing her and she falls after hitting the chair behind her. While she's on the floor, I hit her in the face twice, and then I walk away. I was always told that The person who throws the first punch is the aggressor, so I felt as though I was just acting in self-defense. Unfortunately, when the cops came they did not feel that way and they arrested me for domestic violence.

I got out of jail on Friday and was told that I had a no contact order. Of course the first thing that I want to do is go home and cuddle with my two cats. I spoke with the owner of the apartment while I was on my way back, and she told me the roommate was gone for the weekend and that I could stay during that time to rest and start packing my things. However, I was only home a couple hours before the police came knocking on my door again and arrested me for violating the no contact order. It turns out, the order was for the apartment and not the roommate, which I had misunderstood. So, here I go back to jail for a second time in literally the same outfit I was arrested in the first time.

While being gone in jail, my roommate has decided to go through all of my belongings and steal whatever she feels like. The two hours I was home on Friday, I noticed that my PlayStation 5 was missing. I also noticed that both of my laptops and my webcam were missing, among other things. When I got out of jail the second time, I made sure that I had a police escort so I could go get my things. During this time, it was quite clear that she had continued to move my things around and take what she wanted. I was most excited to smoke a cigarette once I was out. And I know for sure that I left my pack on the deck. But once I got up to the apartment, she seemed to have either thrown away or taken both that pack of cigarettes and my backup pack of cigarettes, along with all of my lighters and ashtrays, my bowl for my medical cannabis and my grinder. In fact, the more that I look around, the more I realize she's taken just about everything.

The first things I realized are missing are my wallet and my cat Shadow. Of course I have two police women with me as my escorts, so eventually I convinced one of them to go into her bedroom and ask where my wallet is. She tells the cop that it is in her cat stroller. It was there, but it was buried underneath a bunch of her stuff like she was trying to hide it. Super sus. Then the cop goes in to ask about Shadow, and she lets Shadow out of her room. I told them about the missing PlayStation 5 and my missing PlayStation 3. The cop goes in first to ask about the PlayStation 5, to which the roommate says she doesn't know where it is. She then goes to ask about the PlayStation 3, to which the roommate decides to hand it over.

At this point, I'm missing so many belongings that I tell the police that they need to file a report for my missing items so that I can use that report for a claim on my renters insurance to get my things back, even though we all know my stuff is in that roommates room. Thankfully they wrote up the report. For some reason, the roommate had also moved my 55-in TV so that was one of the things I decided to pack up and take with me. Once I got it to my new spot, I plugged it in and realized that it's trashed. Just visually completely destroyed.

My friend and I stuffed as we could into her car, and I'm staying with her now for the short-term. But I still have the majority of my belongings in that apartment. This time, before I left I tried to put everything into my bedroom and bathroom and lock the doors, but the locks are fairly easy to open from the outside if you know what you're doing. I hope she doesn't know what she's doing. I can't go back there now until I schedule an appointment with the county sheriff and then we can go together to pack up the rest of my things. I left a message for the sheriff today, but who knows how long that's going to take. Every second that my stuff sits in her vicinity, the more she's going to steal from me, the more she's going to break my stuff, the more she's going to throw things I love in the trash.

I have a court date on the 24th of this month, which will hopefully let me explain my side of the story, but I don't think that the resolution of this case is going to get me any of my personal property back. I also think it's really frustrating to know that she has faced literally no consequences for her actions and I had to spend 6 days in jail. I'm thinking that I want to sue her for my missing property as well as pain and suffering, the chipped tooth I have now, and abuse of a vulnerable adult, since I am a disabled person.

As a disabled person, I'm pretty poor so I can't go out and hire some fancy lawyer to do all of this for me. I'm hoping somebody out there has some advice for me regarding both the court case on the 24th for the original domestic violence charge, as well as how to pursue a civil suit against this roommate in the best and least expensive way possible. Honestly, any resources for anything that you think that I could use would be appreciated. I feel like my life is just spiraling out of control, spiraling down the drain, disintegrating into nothingness, never to be seen again. I could use any and all help combating the treachery and getting back to a normal life. Thanks in advance guys!

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u/LizzoMyBizzo — 1 month ago

I'm an abused vulnerable adult, but I end up in jail!?!

Location: Minnesota, Dakota county

I just spent 6 days in jail and while I was there my roommate stole all of my electronics, jewelry, ceremonial katana and many other items. The cops aren't taking this seriously because they're treating me like I am a criminal and my roommate is the victim. Let me explain...

I moved a couple months ago and the apartment I moved into was for people with disabilities and already had a woman living there for a couple months before I moved in. Throughout my time there, I had multiple different problems with the way the roommate acted. I have OCPD and PTSD and have grown up with multiple different hoarders, so I keep my area obsessively clean. This girl is disgustingly dirty and has said that cleaning is her "pet peeve" 😒

She would leave the kitchen a hot mess no matter what she was doing. If she was cooking, there would be dirty dishes everywhere and spices all over the counter and appliances moved around the countertops. When she would bring food home, she would shove it in weird corner locations in the kitchen instead of putting them in the pantry. This drove me nuts, especially because I can't do what I need to do in the kitchen if it's destroyed because of whatever she has done, so I spent a lot of time cleaning up after her. This is despite the fact that she has a county worker that comes every day and should be helping her clean these things up.

Since I had moved, I lost two electronic pepper grinders. It became the pepper grinder mystery; did the movers forget to pack it? Did the county worker who unpacked my items steal it? Did it get left on the moving truck? They were also a couple of other things that I had been missing, but they weren't a huge deal.

When I moved in, it wasn't long before I saw a cockroach! GROSS 🤢 SO I CALLED THE OFFICE AND THEY SENT PEST CONTROL OUT. This meant we had to empty everything out of the kitchen before pest control came. After they came, I was missing the cover that I use in the microwave for my food. And asked my roommate about it quite a few times, and she kept saying that she was still looking for it but it had to be somewhere in her room. I had also been waiting for a package from a friend from out of state with a birthday present in it for me. She told me that it was in a bright pink envelope and that I should have reached me by now.

One weekend, my roommate left to stay at her boyfriend's and I decided to check her room for my microwave cover. Needless to say, I found the microwave cover, along with my missing pepper grinders and a few other things that were mine that she had clearly stolen. I also found that bright pink envelope in her room, opened, and empty, clearly meaning she took whatever was inside.

It was very early in the morning at this point, but I decided to call the non-emergency Burnsville police phone number to report this theft. For some reason the cop wanted to know what the birthday present was, and I didn't know, so I had to call my friend and ask. I returned the call to the police to let them know what it was and the cop asked if my roommate was home to which I said no. He then told me to call him back when she was home.

At this point, I'm steaming because she stole my stuff from the apartment and stuff from my mail. She in fact had another package that she had opened from somebody else's unit, meaning she's stealing everyone's mail. But I couldn't believe the audacity of her to seal my birthday present.

So, she comes home later that afternoon, and I start loudly telling her that she needs to give me my birthday present back. She tells me that I need to take my belongings off of the entertainment center in the living room because that's her furniture. I tell her I will do that after she returns my birthday present. She then looks at me and says I'm going to call the cops on you. I laughed in her face and told her to go ahead, I already called them on you to report your theft.

This apparently made her really mad, because then she hit me in the face. I of course retaliated and hit her back and she fell down. She stands back up, and hits me in the face again, which leads to me pushing her and she falls after hitting the chair behind her. While she's on the floor, I hit her in the face twice, and then I walk away. I was always told that The person who throws the first punch is the aggressor, so I felt as though I was just acting in self-defense. Unfortunately, when the cops came they did not feel that way and they arrested me for domestic violence.

I got out of jail on Friday and was told that I had a no contact order. Of course the first thing that I want to do is go home and cuddle with my two cats. I spoke with the owner of the apartment while I was on my way back, and she told me the roommate was gone for the weekend and that I could stay during that time to rest and start packing my things. However, I was only home a couple hours before the police came knocking on my door again and arrested me for violating the no contact order. It turns out, the order was for the apartment and not the roommate, which I had misunderstood. So, here I go back to jail for a second time in literally the same outfit I was arrested in the first time.

While being gone in jail, my roommate has decided to go through all of my belongings and steal whatever she feels like. The two hours I was home on Friday, I noticed that my PlayStation 5 was missing. I also noticed that both of my laptops and my webcam were missing, among other things. When I got out of jail the second time, I made sure that I had a police escort so I could go get my things. During this time, it was quite clear that she had continued to move my things around and take what she wanted. I was most excited to smoke a cigarette once I was out. And I know for sure that I left my pack on the deck. But once I got up to the apartment, she seemed to have either thrown away or taken both that pack of cigarettes and my backup pack of cigarettes, along with all of my lighters and ashtrays, my bowl for my medical cannabis and my grinder. In fact, the more that I look around, the more I realize she's taken just about everything.

The first things I realized are missing are my wallet and my cat Shadow. Of course I have two police women with me as my escorts, so eventually I convinced one of them to go into her bedroom and ask where my wallet is. She tells the cop that it is in her cat stroller. It was there, but it was buried underneath a bunch of her stuff like she was trying to hide it. Super sus. Then the cop goes in to ask about Shadow, and she lets Shadow out of her room. I told them about the missing PlayStation 5 and my missing PlayStation 3. The cop goes in first to ask about the PlayStation 5, to which the roommate says she doesn't know where it is. She then goes to ask about the PlayStation 3, to which the roommate decides to hand it over.

At this point, I'm missing so many belongings that I tell the police that they need to file a report for my missing items so that I can use that report for a claim on my renters insurance to get my things back, even though we all know my stuff is in that roommates room. Thankfully they wrote up the report. For some reason, the roommate had also moved my 55-in TV so that was one of the things I decided to pack up and take with me. Once I got it to my new spot, I plugged it in and realized that it's trashed. Just visually completely destroyed.

My friend and I stuffed as we could into her car, and I'm staying with her now for the short-term. But I still have the majority of my belongings in that apartment. This time, before I left I tried to put everything into my bedroom and bathroom and lock the doors, but the locks are fairly easy to open from the outside if you know what you're doing. I hope she doesn't know what she's doing. I can't go back there now until I schedule an appointment with the county sheriff and then we can go together to pack up the rest of my things. I left a message for the sheriff today, but who knows how long that's going to take. Every second that my stuff sits in her vicinity, the more she's going to steal from me, the more she's going to break my stuff, the more she's going to throw things I love in the trash.

I have a court date on the 24th of this month, which will hopefully let me explain my side of the story, but I don't think that the resolution of this case is going to get me any of my personal property back. I also think it's really frustrating to know that she has faced literally no consequences for her actions and I had to spend 6 days in jail. I'm thinking that I want to sue her for my missing property as well as pain and suffering, the chipped tooth I have now, and abuse of a vulnerable adult, since I am a disabled person.

As a disabled person, I'm pretty poor so I can't go out and hire some fancy lawyer to do all of this for me. I'm hoping somebody out there has some advice for me regarding both the court case on the 24th for the original domestic violence charge, as well as how to pursue a civil suit against this roommate in the best and least expensive way possible. Honestly, any resources for anything that you think that I could use would be appreciated. I feel like my life is just spiraling out of control, spiraling down the drain, disintegrating into nothingness, never to be seen again. I could use any and all help combating the treachery and getting back to a normal life. Thanks in advance guys!

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u/LizzoMyBizzo — 1 month ago
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Abuse of a vulnerable adult and I end up in jail?

I just spent 6 days in jail and while I was there my roommate stole all of my electronics, jewelry, ceremonial katana and many other items. The cops aren't taking this seriously because they're treating me like I am a criminal and my roommate is the victim. Let me explain...

I moved a couple months ago and the apartment I moved into was for people with disabilities and already had a woman living there for a couple months before I moved in. Throughout my time there, I had multiple different problems with the way the roommate acted. I have OCPD and PTSD and have grown up with multiple different hoarders, so I keep my area obsessively clean. This girl is disgustingly dirty and has said that cleaning is her "pet peeve" 😒

She would leave the kitchen a hot mess no matter what she was doing. If she was cooking, there would be dirty dishes everywhere and spices all over the counter and appliances moved around the countertops. When she would bring food home, she would shove it in weird corner locations in the kitchen instead of putting them in the pantry. This drove me nuts, especially because I can't do what I need to do in the kitchen if it's destroyed because of whatever she has done, so I spent a lot of time cleaning up after her. This is despite the fact that she has a county worker that comes every day and should be helping her clean these things up.

Since I had moved, I lost two electronic pepper grinders. It became the pepper grinder mystery; did the movers forget to pack it? Did the county worker who unpacked my items steal it? Did it get left on the moving truck? They were also a couple of other things that I had been missing, but they weren't a huge deal.

When I moved in, it wasn't long before I saw a cockroach! GROSS 🤢 SO I CALLED THE OFFICE AND THEY SENT PEST CONTROL OUT. This meant we had to empty everything out of the kitchen before pest control came. After they came, I was missing the cover that I use in the microwave for my food. And asked my roommate about it quite a few times, and she kept saying that she was still looking for it but it had to be somewhere in her room. I had also been waiting for a package from a friend from out of state with a birthday present in it for me. She told me that it was in a bright pink envelope and that I should have reached me by now.

One weekend, my roommate left to stay at her boyfriend's and I decided to check her room for my microwave cover. Needless to say, I found the microwave cover, along with my missing pepper grinders and a few other things that were mine that she had clearly stolen. I also found that bright pink envelope in her room, opened, and empty, clearly meaning she took whatever was inside.

It was very early in the morning at this point, but I decided to call the non-emergency Burnsville police phone number to report this theft. For some reason the cop wanted to know what the birthday present was, and I didn't know, so I had to call my friend and ask. I returned the call to the police to let them know what it was and the cop asked if my roommate was home to which I said no. He then told me to call him back when she was home.

At this point, I'm steaming because she stole my stuff from the apartment and stuff from my mail. She in fact had another package that she had opened from somebody else's unit, meaning she's stealing everyone's mail. But I couldn't believe the audacity of her to seal my birthday present.

So, she comes home later that afternoon, and I start loudly telling her that she needs to give me my birthday present back. She tells me that I need to take my belongings off of the entertainment center in the living room because that's her furniture. I tell her I will do that after she returns my birthday present. She then looks at me and says I'm going to call the cops on you. I laughed in her face and told her to go ahead, I already called them on you to report your theft.

This apparently made her really mad, because then she hit me in the face. I of course retaliated and hit her back and she fell down. She stands back up, and hits me in the face again, which leads to me pushing her and she falls after hitting the chair behind her. While she's on the floor, I hit her in the face twice, and then I walk away. I was always told that The person who throws the first punch is the aggressor, so I felt as though I was just acting in self-defense. Unfortunately, when the cops came they did not feel that way and they arrested me for domestic violence.

I got out of jail on Friday and was told that I had a no contact order. Of course the first thing that I want to do is go home and cuddle with my two cats. I spoke with the owner of the apartment while I was on my way back, and she told me the roommate was gone for the weekend and that I could stay during that time to rest and start packing my things. However, I was only home a couple hours before the police came knocking on my door again and arrested me for violating the no contact order. It turns out, the order was for the apartment and not the roommate, which I had misunderstood. So, here I go back to jail for a second time in literally the same outfit I was arrested in the first time.

While being gone in jail, my roommate has decided to go through all of my belongings and steal whatever she feels like. The two hours I was home on Friday, I noticed that my PlayStation 5 was missing. I also noticed that both of my laptops and my webcam were missing, among other things. When I got out of jail the second time, I made sure that I had a police escort so I could go get my things. During this time, it was quite clear that she had continued to move my things around and take what she wanted. I was most excited to smoke a cigarette once I was out. And I know for sure that I left my pack on the deck. But once I got up to the apartment, she seemed to have either thrown away or taken both that pack of cigarettes and my backup pack of cigarettes, along with all of my lighters and ashtrays, my bowl for my medical cannabis and my grinder. In fact, the more that I look around, the more I realize she's taken just about everything.

The first things I realized are missing are my wallet and my cat Shadow. Of course I have two police women with me as my escorts, so eventually I convinced one of them to go into her bedroom and ask where my wallet is. She tells the cop that it is in her cat stroller. It was there, but it was buried underneath a bunch of her stuff like she was trying to hide it. Super sus. Then the cop goes in to ask about Shadow, and she lets Shadow out of her room. I told them about the missing PlayStation 5 and my missing PlayStation 3. The cop goes in first to ask about the PlayStation 5, to which the roommate says she doesn't know where it is. She then goes to ask about the PlayStation 3, to which the roommate decides to hand it over.

At this point, I'm missing so many belongings that I tell the police that they need to file a report for my missing items so that I can use that report for a claim on my renters insurance to get my things back, even though we all know my stuff is in that roommates room. Thankfully they wrote up the report. For some reason, the roommate had also moved my 55-in TV so that was one of the things I decided to pack up and take with me. Once I got it to my new spot, I plugged it in and realized that it's trashed. Just visually completely destroyed.

My friend and I stuffed as we could into her car, and I'm staying with her now for the short-term. But I still have the majority of my belongings in that apartment. This time, before I left I tried to put everything into my bedroom and bathroom and lock the doors, but the locks are fairly easy to open from the outside if you know what you're doing. I hope she doesn't know what she's doing. I can't go back there now until I schedule an appointment with the county sheriff and then we can go together to pack up the rest of my things. I left a message for the sheriff today, but who knows how long that's going to take. Every second that my stuff sits in her vicinity, the more she's going to steal from me, the more she's going to break my stuff, the more she's going to throw things I love in the trash.

I have a court date on the 24th of this month, which will hopefully let me explain my side of the story, but I don't think that the resolution of this case is going to get me any of my personal property back. I also think it's really frustrating to know that she has faced literally no consequences for her actions and I had to spend 6 days in jail. I'm thinking that I want to sue her for my missing property as well as pain and suffering, the chipped tooth I have now, and abuse of a vulnerable adult, since I am a disabled person.

As a disabled person, I'm pretty poor so I can't go out and hire some fancy lawyer to do all of this for me. I'm hoping somebody out there has some advice for me regarding both the court case on the 24th for the original domestic violence charge, as well as how to pursue a civil suit against this roommate in the best and least expensive way possible. Honestly, any resources for anything that you think that I could use would be appreciated. I feel like my life is just spiraling out of control, spiraling down the drain, disintegrating into nothingness, never to be seen again. I could use any and all help combating the treachery and getting back to a normal life. Thanks in advance guys!

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u/LizzoMyBizzo — 1 month ago

I can't ask y'all for your opinions/stories I guess...

Idk what exactly this reddit is for, I guess, but it's not for us to discuss our stories with one another. Hit me up if you want to do so in our own free time.

P.s. Mods... I'm only allowed to talk about instant pain relief? Not about the broken medical system and patient advocacy, which would relieve pain long term? Are you anti-opioid too? SMDH

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u/LizzoMyBizzo — 3 months ago

Let's come together!

Would anyone in this group be willing to have an interview with me about chronic pain? either anonymously or not! I just wanna get our stories out there! No one's talking about this! Message me and lmk!

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u/LizzoMyBizzo — 3 months ago

Let's come together!

Would anyone in this group be willing to have an interview with me about chronic pain? either anonymously or not! I just wanna get our stories out there! No one's talking about this! Message me and lmk!

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u/LizzoMyBizzo — 3 months ago