NPA This Week in Pawn
Top 10 Most Read Articles of 2018
This special issue of the newsletter, the last of 2018, includes the top 10 most read articles from this year's newsletters.
1. At least 40 guns stolen from Reno pawn store

News3lv.com
Secret Witness is offering a $1,000 reward in northern Nevada for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of a suspect or suspects wanted for the theft of dozens of guns from a Reno pawn shop.

2. How to make sure you do not get scammed this holiday shopping season

CBS59
Black Friday is the busiest day of in store shopping and kicks off the holiday shopping season. Cyber Monday rounds out one of the largest shopping weekends. According to BlackFriday.com in 2017, 81 million people shopped on Cyber Monday. 

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3. Proposed Niagara County law seeks to recover more stolen property from pawn shops

The Buffalo News
Niagara County officials want to make it easier to recover stolen property by requiring dealers to hold onto it for at least two weeks and to report their transactions to a central database.

4. Uber driver turns man in for stealing jewelry from pawn shop

NBC2
Detectives arrested a man for stealing jewelry from a Port Charlotte pawn shop thanks to the help of the man's Uber driver, who helped identify him using a post on the Charlotte County Sheriff's Office Facebook page.

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9. Students go broke for a day

Moscow-Pullman Daily News
About 25 students were thrown in jail, got fired from their jobs, bartered with a pawn shop owner and tried to survive natural disasters at the Washington State University Compton Union Building.

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10. 'Diamonds are a girl’s best friend’ goes for $50K

National Jeweler
Intellectual property and loads of engagement rings, wedding bands and other diamond jewelry made by Nirav Modi’s former companies have been sold. 

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