Appellant's Brief - Washington State Courts

numbers and bank account numbers, in recovered stolen vehicles. RP 228-
229. Further, Sterling Bronson testified that Mr. Hendrickson owned and
operated a tow company and repaired vehicles and sold them "for cheap "
RP 321. Detective Yglesias concluded in her report that most of the
documents had probably been left in vehicles by people who had had their
cars sold. RP 232-233. Detective Yglesias did not see evidence of any
crime being committed in any of the documents or evidence recovered
from the trailer (RP 233-280), and that all the documents found in the
trailer were consistent with items that would be kept in normal business
records or would be found in abandoned, impounded, or towed vehicles.
RP 280. Finally, Detective Yglesias conducted a thorough investigation of
the evidence and documents collected from the trailer and forwarded the
information to the prosecutor's office without a recommendation that
charges be filed. RP 28 1.
In the testimony of the police detective who investigated the case,
no evidence indicated that any crime had been committed and Mr.
Hendrickson's possession of all the documents found in the trailer,
including the two social security cards, were consistent with documents
kept for business purposes by someone in his line of work and/or
documents found in vehicles which were towed and later sold.