The Paddle on the Pole: How a $4,200 Clue Unraveled a Scam
カートのアイテムが多すぎます
ご購入は五十タイトルがカートに入っている場合のみです。
カートに追加できませんでした。
しばらく経ってから再度お試しください。
ウィッシュリストに追加できませんでした。
しばらく経ってから再度お試しください。
ほしい物リストの削除に失敗しました。
しばらく経ってから再度お試しください。
ポッドキャストのフォローに失敗しました
ポッドキャストのフォロー解除に失敗しました
The Paddle on the Pole: How a $4,200 Clue Unraveled a Scam
-
ナレーター：
-
著者：
A laminated bid paddle dated eight days before its auction, stuck twelve feet up a utility pole with "$4,200" written on it, should never have existed - yet that impossible detail started a chain that exposed a four-year fraud across six storage facilities. Who manufactured a fake auction, pre-filled paddles, and a numeric pattern that only a coordinated scheme could produce?
In this episode, we follow how a misplaced paddle and a spreadsheet led auditors from a utility pole in Harwick to accounting anomalies spanning multiple counties, and ask how routine trust between neighbors was turned into a tool for theft. What exactly did the numbers hide, and who benefited from those identical auction returns?
Person: Kent Norris
Person: Frank Cooper
Person: Melissa Barnes
Location: Harwick, Ohio
Date: 2019
- The laminated bid paddle was found twelve feet up a utility pole on a dead-end service road on Route 9.
- The paddle was dated eight days before the auction it purported to be from and had "$4,200" written in permanent marker.
- Kent Norris was fifty-one years old in the spring of 2019 and had founded Norris Auction Services by 2014.
- Frank Cooper recorded seven auctions over fourteen months with nearly identical price-per-cubic-foot returns.
- Ridgeline Storage’s auction log showed eleven registered bidders in October 2017, but investigators found multiple disconnected numbers, three addresses that did not exist in Ohio, and an eleventh bidder who had lived in Arizona since 2016.
To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
© 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved.
This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_t1
まだレビューはありません