Update:
I ended up getting a check from my insurance for $1800 dollars... My shit was probably worth like $500 altogether. I bought a nice deck, an OK amp and speaker, and used a few hundred for other shit. I'm giving the rest, about $700, to my lady to add to her 'baby stash". Mostly to pay her bills while she's out of work. If I wasn't pissed at the fuckers I would probably thank them. They never gave my shit back, or gave me money like their mom promised.
Turns out, the night I gave them a ride, they went back to the house we were at and jacked a couple hundred pounds from the dude. They took the load up to Phoenix, and stayed there for about a little more than a month. I hear the guy they jacked is still after them for the pounds, and he's got other people after my cousins. The system they jacked from me was used to be able to get to Phoenix and pay for rooms. I haven't ran into them, but I've been hearing about them.
They came back to town this past weekend, and I guess one of them bought a Lexus while he was in Phoenix. So, I'm watching the news yesterday and I hear his name. His dumbass got locked up. He was with two other guys. One of them is also a cousin of mines. I don't know where the other brother is, but I'm pretty sure he's on his way there also. This is the story:
http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/metro/36542.php
"3 jailed after South Side shooting
Trio arrested after pursuit by vehicle, on foot
By Aaron Mackey
ARIZONA DAILY STAR
Three men who police said fired shots in a South Side neighborhood and then led sheriff's deputies on a vehicle chase were arrested Sunday.
The chase began around noon when deputies responded to a report of shots being fired from a 1991 red Lexus in the neighborhood of West Capistrano Road and South Camino de la Tierra, which is near West Valencia and South Mission roads, said Sgt. James Ogden, a Pima County Sheriff's Department spokesman.
Moments later, the vehicle, carrying Anthony Coronado, 19, David Espinoza, 18, and Ceasar Martinez, 18, was involved in a minor accident near Interstate 19 and West Irvington Road, he said.
The three men got out of the vehicle and ran to a nearby Home Depot, 1155 W. Irvington, Ogden said.
Deputies followed the trio on foot and asked employees to lock down the store, Ogden said.
One of the men was found alongside the building near a trash compactor, while the other two were detained near the store's entrance, Ogden said.
The three men never got into the store, which had locked its doors.
No weapons were found on the men or in the surrounding area, but after backtracking along the chase route, deputies found a loaded .45-caliber handgun on South Midvale Park Road just north of West Drexel Road, Ogden said.
The gun was thrown out of the men's vehicle at some point during the chase, Ogden said.
Coronado, Espinoza and Martinez were booked into Pima County jail Sunday on two felony counts each of endangerment and fleeing from law enforcement, Ogden said."
My cousin's futures are fucked. I'm not even going to waste my time worrying about them. I've got my own family to worry about. They chose this path and now they've got to deal with it.