4 cities' police-seized items going, going, gone on Web

By Andy Davis

LITTLE ROCK — Hoping to fetch better prices for their seized or unclaimed bicycles, televisions, lawn mowers and other items, a growing number of police departments are turning to the Internet.

Four Arkansas cities - Little Rock, Maumelle, Springdale and Bentonville - are selling items through the online auction site www.propertyroom.com. Founded by a former Long Beach, N.Y., police officer in 1999, the company has contracts with more than 1,000 law-enforcement agencies nationwide, including the police departments in New York and Los Angeles.

On Wednesday, the Web site listed more than 1,200 auctions of jewelry, 74 auctions of watches and 544 auctions of cameras, cell phones and other electronics equipment.

For more information see today's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

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