Harrison County attorney Tim Holleman has never seen anything quite like it. The county keeps trying to return some valuable office equipment. But the company that owns it has failed to collect.
So Harrison County Sheriff Troy Peterson will auction off 114 copiers, printers and faxes that Ricoh USA Inc. failed to pick up, despite repeated requests.
The county’s lease for the office equipment had expired when the county went with a different vendor and notified Ricoh in April 2013 to pick up its stuff. Nobody came. Copiers sat in the courthouse hallway and various offices. They were in the way, said Holleman, who added that Ricoh was notified more than once to pick them up. read the rest here