Soup, Sorry that you got taken. Thieves show up in all areas of life.
sorry you have to go to the police station to make a formal complaint.
Do that sooner than later while you remember the incident.
I hate getting ripped off. That has only happened to us one time

for shoddy handimans work building us a new door for our shed

in the back of the house. He was a hopeless mess. I met his

wife at the gym and she ranted and raved about his work.

So I believed her and then we had to fire him.
Still paid him some money. as he did do some of the work.
It was taking incredible long, and his work was not good.

WE hired another company to come fix the trouble areas

and finished residing the whole wall.
and painting it. that was 18 years ago. now that side

of the shed is starting to rot at the bottom where the
rain hits it perhaps a gutter would have prevented this
from happening? I guess we could still put up a gutter

to prevent any more damage?