To the Stone Harbor spouter with the stolen air conditioners: There are at most three officers patrolling your town. They can't be everywhere at once. All winter long work trucks are parked around town, and it is very easy to slip in and steal almost anything unnoticed; the town is a virtual ghost town all winter. You don't have to be a master criminal to pull it off. There is very little chance that anyone could solve this case, the air conditioners were cut up for scrap hours after being stolen. Stolen scrap metal is a huge business all over the US. The SH and Avalon PD do the best they can.