[cestith]

The police are wrong of course to participate in targeted harassment. However, it’s not entirely wrong that this is a civil matter. There is a contract regarding this, and there was not normal criminal theft by deception or robbery by force.

Disclaimer: I am not an attorney and I am certainly not your attorney. This is not legal advice, but information about a general concept of US law.

There’s a concept in US law called “conversion” which is a class of tort. BAM is trying to convert these items from the collector’s ownership to being corporate property.

https://uslawexplained.com/conversion_law

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/conversion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_(law)