 There has been a recent increase in crime around the many community of Floyd County. As an unknown number of criminals are still in catalytic converters from vehicles. Come down loaded all of our equipment up that we have to have for the funeral and of course some of the people. And we go out and as we get it loaded up, we follow the vehicle up and it sounds like a tank. Then we know there's something bad wrong. Somebody just stole the converter off of the van. The van's only like got 5,000 miles on it. They probably didn't get no dust in their eyes off of that clean metal, you know, it's a brand new converter. And so we had to back up then unload the van and put it, or stuff in the cars and of course go on and do the funeral. And it just makes it rough. When you're stealing your stuff that way. And we hope, you know, if somebody's seen anything in the area here, we'd like to know. So we could try to catch them. I understand they've been taking converters off and other vehicles in the area too. So somebody else might have seen one of them, so it might help us. Our proceeds come from roadblocks and people donating. And it just makes it rough, you know, when you have to scrounge around, you know, to try to do things to help people and then they come in and steal your stuff. If anybody wants to send you a donation, they can send it to this Able Merckin Veterans Chapter 128 at McDowell. And the box is 128 too, same as the chapter number. Well anyway, if anybody, you know, when they see us in these roadblocks or if you just want to donate anything, that's the biggest help you can do, you know, to keep us going. It's all voluntary. You know, ain't nobody doing this for, you know, for a living or nothing. It's just voluntary. We're trying to do the right and the last right for a brother, you know. So we're working really hard to try to figure out who did this to see if we can recoup their money and get the repairs. If anybody has any information, they can call the Floyd County Sheriff's Office at 606-886-6171. If they want to remain anonymous, they can call our tip line at 606-949-2020. To combat this, this seems to be happening more and more. The catalytic converter on these vehicles has some value to it and we really can't even trace down where people's taking these. They're selling them. We've got information that someone's coming around and buying these catalytic converters that they're not even taking them to the local metal shops in the junkyards. We're encouraging businesses to try to get some, and organizations to get some surveillance cameras to kind of help combat this and put a stop to people making easy money, taking money from organizations that they don't have. This group really doesn't have the money to go out and just spend $2,000 because they use their money to transport their personnel to do funerals for veterans and they do programs in the schools for kids and then someone comes and takes a big chunk of their money away and this is going to hurt them. They're not going to be able to do as much as they have a plan to do because this is money that they're going to have to take out of their account to repair this plan.