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Sheriff Deryl Loar believed that the proposed Ordinance would be a tool for fighting <br /> crime, and the check transaction requirement would be a deterrent to vendors purchasing illegal <br /> drugs with the cash they receive from selling their scrap . <br /> Commissioners Davis and Flescher, respectively, explained why they saw no advantage <br /> to the discontinuance of cash transactions . <br /> Attorney Polackwich explained that the proposed Ordinance had been modeled on similar <br /> Ordinances in six Counties, the majority of which had included the cash transaction requirement, <br /> and most of which requested additional proof of ownership . <br /> Theresa Vives , Cash In Recycling Center, said she would lose customers if cash <br /> payments were discontinued . Regarding the exchange of information, she suggested setting up <br /> one central database, such as Scrap Dragon in Orange County, where data on recycled metals <br /> sales could be uploaded to the Sheriff' s Department . <br /> Keith Taig, Mr. Scrap Inc . , 4455 45th Street, advised that he has been providing <br /> handwritten lists of certain sales transactions to law enforcement personnel . He agreed with Mr . <br /> Cook that disallowing cash transactions would not be , a deterrent to criminal activity . He <br /> suggested that the scrap metal dealers work with the Sheriff' s Department to set up an <br /> electronics notification system for regulated metals sales . <br /> Mike Carroll, Indian River Scrap Metals, contended that the "no cash transactions" <br /> requirement would drive the criminals elsewhere and valuable tracking information would be <br /> lost. <br /> Sheriffs Office General Counsel James Harpring, 455 41St Avenue, asserted that the <br /> limitations on cash transactions would be an effective deterrent to unlawful sales of scrap metals . <br /> He spoke to the importance of the electronic notification requirement, but conceded that the <br /> 8K 141 PG 490 <br /> October 4, 2011 17 <br />