A breach of trust (in our home)...(Update)

[mnhtnbb]

28. I've been there--where your wife is--because my husband is a doc

and been busy when we've moved to new houses. Most everything fell to me to arrange. I was lucky through the years
especially when we spent the better part of the first year in one house doing a total remodel/redecorating. And it was a big house.
I was so happy with the contractors that when we moved again from St. Joseph, MO to Lincoln, NE I brought the contractors
up from Kansas City where they were based to do the work on the new house. Paid for them to stay at a motel, too. It's really
important to have workers you trust and whose work you admire and appreciate in the house.

That said, a couple of years ago I had the HVAC guys out for routine spring maintenance. We have a detached garage apartment
and the air handler is in the garage. My husband--without my knowledge--had put his shotgun and an antique pistol in the closet in
the garage where the air handler was located. When I opened the door, the a/c guy asked me, "Are those guns?" Dumb me left
him alone to do his work.

Several weeks later, the guns were gone. We're pretty sure he took them--and I've never had that HVAC company back--but the closet
wasn't locked and neither is the garage. So, anybody could have gone in there--and I did have other workers I trust on the property--
before we discovered the theft-- getting paint stored in the garage so we couldn't really call the company and accuse the a/c guy.

All that said, I think you should follow through going to court if needed. The guy needs to be held accountable and you have him nailed.