Pennsylvania
Back in August, my car was keyed and tires slashed. I am sure I know who did it. I had JUST moved to Philadelphia and no one knew where I lived, except for this girl who WAS my friend, but we had a falling out. She also knew my car very well..had ridden in it MANY times, when no one else I know in this city, had. She had also threatened me by text message and voicemail, AND her boyfriend is a thug, who'd exhibited anger issues in front of our other, mutual friends. Not only that, he tried to steal a friend's phone IN FRONT OF a bunch of people. The guy is a total thug.
Anyway, I reported the car vandalism to the police, and gave them this nefarious couple's info. I had no evidence, however, and no witnesses.
BUT
From Sept-Dec, I was getting "anonymous" text messages from numbers I did not recognize. However, in the text messages, the person was giving me hints about who they were, calling me a nickname that the girl had used for me...saying "you stayed at my house a couple times" (only ONE person in Philly who I'd ever been a houseguest of, and it was..you guessed it...the vandalism twins.)
I asked a P.I. to trace the 2 numbers, but he couldn't. For the most part, I ignored all the texts but kept a record of them.
Then in December, I got another one. This time, the guy says "I'm a friend of Kristin's" (the girl). So I knew it was him. I decided to reply back. I said "I don't want anything to do with that crazy b***. Tell her she's just lucky she's not in jail for what she did to my car."
He replied back "It wasn't her. You're mad at the wrong person. It was T****" (T*** being a mutal friend, who I KNOW did NOT vandalize my car. Because first off, T**** doesn't know where I live, and SECONDLY, she doesn't know what my car looks like!!)
This THIRD number he texted me from..I was actually able to trace that one. And YUP, I can PROVE it came from Mr. Vandalism himself.
Now, from the research I've been doing, I think I have some options here, and I'd like to get advice about how to proceed:
1) File a private criminal complaint. HOWEVER, I have no evidence they committed the vandalism, OTHER THAN, this text message where the nutball thug tries to pin the car vandalism on someone else.
2) File a stay away order, based on the girlfriend's threatening text messages and voicemails from August, and the fact that the thuggy guy has been texting me all this time
3) File a civil complaint in small claims court to get money to fix my car (maybe the burden of proof isn't as hard to meet, in civil court?)
4) All of the above?
What do you all think?
Like I said, I filed a police report about the original vandalism, but the cops won't do anything.
Back in August, my car was keyed and tires slashed. I am sure I know who did it. I had JUST moved to Philadelphia and no one knew where I lived, except for this girl who WAS my friend, but we had a falling out. She also knew my car very well..had ridden in it MANY times, when no one else I know in this city, had. She had also threatened me by text message and voicemail, AND her boyfriend is a thug, who'd exhibited anger issues in front of our other, mutual friends. Not only that, he tried to steal a friend's phone IN FRONT OF a bunch of people. The guy is a total thug.
Anyway, I reported the car vandalism to the police, and gave them this nefarious couple's info. I had no evidence, however, and no witnesses.
BUT
From Sept-Dec, I was getting "anonymous" text messages from numbers I did not recognize. However, in the text messages, the person was giving me hints about who they were, calling me a nickname that the girl had used for me...saying "you stayed at my house a couple times" (only ONE person in Philly who I'd ever been a houseguest of, and it was..you guessed it...the vandalism twins.)
I asked a P.I. to trace the 2 numbers, but he couldn't. For the most part, I ignored all the texts but kept a record of them.
Then in December, I got another one. This time, the guy says "I'm a friend of Kristin's" (the girl). So I knew it was him. I decided to reply back. I said "I don't want anything to do with that crazy b***. Tell her she's just lucky she's not in jail for what she did to my car."
He replied back "It wasn't her. You're mad at the wrong person. It was T****" (T*** being a mutal friend, who I KNOW did NOT vandalize my car. Because first off, T**** doesn't know where I live, and SECONDLY, she doesn't know what my car looks like!!)
This THIRD number he texted me from..I was actually able to trace that one. And YUP, I can PROVE it came from Mr. Vandalism himself.
Now, from the research I've been doing, I think I have some options here, and I'd like to get advice about how to proceed:
1) File a private criminal complaint. HOWEVER, I have no evidence they committed the vandalism, OTHER THAN, this text message where the nutball thug tries to pin the car vandalism on someone else.
2) File a stay away order, based on the girlfriend's threatening text messages and voicemails from August, and the fact that the thuggy guy has been texting me all this time
3) File a civil complaint in small claims court to get money to fix my car (maybe the burden of proof isn't as hard to meet, in civil court?)
4) All of the above?
What do you all think?
Like I said, I filed a police report about the original vandalism, but the cops won't do anything.
