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IT MAKES PEOPLE HAPPY WHO DON’T HAVE THE MEANS TO DO SO THEMSELVES.” PRESS PHOTO/JESSICA SCOTT WHY DO YOU GIVE? E-mail your Santa Claus Girls memories to [email protected]. Donate easily online or learn more at santaclausgirls.org. Santa Claus Girls is a Press-sponsored charity that, since 1908, has aimed to ensure no child in Kent County is without a Christmas gift. Last year, thousands donated $179,504, and 13,460 children received presents. See page A2 for ways to help and today’s list of donors. SANTA GIRLS: WHY WE GIVE LAST IN A FOUR-PART SERIES BY JOHN AGAR THE GRAND RAPIDS PRESS E ighty-one years ago, Felix Pytlinske started Felix’s marine in Robinson Township overlooking Stearns Bayou on the Grand River. His son, Felix Pytlinske Jr., turns 80 Tuesday. He doesn’t know, he jokes, if he was named for his father — or the shop. But he knows it’s a tough business. Three burglaries in three years result- ed in the loss of nearly 170 firearms. The thefts nearly did him in. They also put a lot of guns on the street. Pytlinske said police suggested, not so delicately, he close his shop after burglars took 76 firearms in a 2008 break-in. He scoffed. Break-ins at gun shops make head- lines, but the stolen firearms put only a fraction of illegal guns on the street, he said. “The number of guns in gun shops today is nothing compared to guns in private residences,” Pytlinske noted. Still, gun stores are popular tar- gets for thieves. On the street, stolen weapons are automatic cash, an easy way to fetch a few hundred dollars. There they follow the same path as other illegal firearms, often disappear- ing for years before turning up in a drug search, a traffic stop, or pointed at someone else. SEE SHOPS, A7 GUNS GONE BAD: A PRESS INVESTIGATION STICKING TO HIS GUNS THIEVES TARGET SHOP, BUT FELIX PYTLINSKE JR. IS NOT EASILY INTIMIDATED PRESS PHOTO/MARK COPIER Business perspective: Felix Pytlinske Jr., shown in his Robinson Township store, says break-ins at gun shops make headlines but account for a only a fraction of illegal guns. Gun: .44-caliber Magnum Smith & Wesson Disappeared: Jan. 5, 2001 Time to crime: Nine years, nine months, 28 days Details: One of 16 guns stolen in a business burglary turns up in Oakland County in November shoot-out with police FOR MORE ABOUT THIS CASE, SEE PAGE A7 The police term refers to how long a weapon disappears before resurfacing in the wrong hands. For each day of this series, gun traces and Press research detail the firearms’ stories. TIME TO CRIME A .44-caliber revolver that went missing for nearly 10 years. REPORT ILLEGAL GUNS: 616-774-2345 FOR MORE ABOUT THIS SPECIAL GRAND RAPIDS PRESS PARTNERSHIP WITH SILENT OBSERVER, SEE A7 BY SUE THOMS THE GRAND RAPIDS PRESS GRAND RAPIDS — Seventeen days after receiving a new heart, Rahn Bentley left the hospital Tuesday on a mission. “After being helped and loved by so many people through this, I now feel like I need to give back,” said Bentley, who underwent Grand Rapids’ first heart transplant on Nov. 27. Bentley announced the creation of the Off to See the Wizard Founda- tion, which will help families of organ donors and transplant recipients and fund efforts encouraging organ dona- tions. The foundation’s first goal is to set up a college fund for the sons of Tim Korzen, the Ada Township resident who became an organ donor after he died of bacterial meningitis. Bentley received Korzen’s heart. “Rahn is pretty amazing,” said his twin brother, Ray, a sports broadcast- er and former Buffalo Bills football player. “This is all his idea — of pay- ing it forward. He knows he has been tremendously blessed, and he wants to pass that on.” His voice breaking with emotion, Rahn Bentley thanked the doctors, nurses and staff at Spectrum Health’s Meijer Heart Center. He called Kor- zen his “ultimate hero” and praised Korzen’s wife, Peggy, for speaking publicly about the organ donation. Bentley said he could tell the operation was a success when he awoke and felt the heart beating in SEE TRANSPLANT, A2 BY KYLA KING THE GRAND RAPIDS PRESS GRAND RAPIDS — A private firm would take over employee manage- ment and operations of all parking services at Gerald R. Ford Interna- tional Airport, including the year- old $130 million four-story parking ramp, under a plan being considered today. Airport Board members are expect- ed to vote on a staff recommenda- tion to outsource parking operations to Chicago-based Standard Parking, which runs airport parking in Chi- cago, Atlanta, Kalamazoo, Traverse City, Flint and Saginaw. The move is expected to save be- tween $1.5 million and $1.9 million over five years, but it also means 19 union-represented Kent County employees would have to reapply for jobs that are very likely to have considerably less pay and benefits. Depending on years of seniority, airport parking attendants who staff SEE PARKING, A2 PRESS PHOTO/EMILY ZOLADZ New energy: Rahn Bentley, 50, of Kentwood describes how it felt when he woke up with a new heart. He spoke at a press conference Tuesday. Heart recipient ready ‘to give back’ Rahn Bentley’s foundation to include college fund for donor’s children Change ahead? Martin Makel of Hudsonville collects tickets in his parking booth at Gerald R. Ford International Airport, where he has worked for nine years. The Airport Board will vote today on outsourcing parking operations to a private firm. PRESS PHOTO/EMILY ZOLADZ Airport expects savings by outsourcing parking But employees would have to reapply for jobs, then face pay, benefit cuts IT’S GOOD TO BE HOME Troops returning from Afghanistan get joyful welcome from friends, family. A3

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www.mlive.com He doesn’t know, he jokes, if he was named for his father — or the shop. FOR MORE ABOUT THIS CASE, SEE PAGE A7 Gun: .44-caliber Magnum Smith & Wesson New energy: Rahn Bentley, 50, of Kentwood describes how it felt when he woke up with a new heart. He spoke at a press conference Tuesday. PARTNERSHIP WITH SILENT OBSERVER, SEE A7 Details: One of 16 guns stolen in a business burglary turns up in Oakland County in November shoot-out with police LAST IN A FOUR-PART SERIES

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Check out statewide employment ads:mlive.com/jobs

INDEXAdvice/Puzzles ............B2Business .....................A14Classified Ads ..............C8Comics ......................... B4

Daily Briefing.............A16Deaths .........................A11Lottery..........................A2Opinions ..................... A17

Region ..........................A3Sports ........................... C1TV/Weather ................ B6Your Life ....................... B1©2010, The Grand Rapids Press

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75¢WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2010

Dr. David Horning , a retired urologist, has donated to Santa Claus Girls for about 45 years, either through his former practice or with his wife, Betsy. This year, the East Grand Rapids couple donated $100.

“WE ARE VERY HAPPY TO SHARE OUR RESOURCES WITH

THOSE WHO DON’T HAVE MANY. ... IT MAKES PEOPLE

HAPPY WHO DON’T HAVE THE MEANS TO DO SO

THEMSELVES.” PRESS PHOTO/JESSICA SCOTT

WHY DO YOU GIVE? E-mail your Santa Claus Girls memories to [email protected].

Donate easily online or learn more at santaclausgirls.org.

Santa Claus Girls is a Press-sponsored charity that, since 1908, has aimed to ensure no child in Kent County is without a Christmas gift. Last year, thousands donated $179,504, and 13,460 children received presents.

See page A2 for ways to help and today’s list of donors.

SANTA GIRLS: WHY

WE GIVE

LAST IN A FOUR-PART SERIES

BY JOHN AGAR

THE GRAND RAPIDS PRESS

E ighty-one years ago, Felix Pytlinske started Felix’s

marine in Robinson Township overlooking Stearns Bayou on the Grand River.

His son, Felix Pytlinske Jr., turns 80 Tuesday.

He doesn’t know, he jokes, if he was named for his father — or the shop.

But he knows it’s a tough business. Three burglaries in three years result-ed in the loss of nearly 170 fi rearms.

The thefts nearly did him in. They also put a lot of guns on the street.

Pytlinske said police suggested, not so delicately, he close his shop after burglars took 76 fi rearms in a 2008 break-in.

He scoffed.Break-ins at gun shops make head-

lines, but the stolen fi rearms put only a fraction of illegal guns on the street, he said.

“The number of guns in gun shops today is nothing compared to guns in private residences,” Pytlinske noted.

Still, gun stores are popular tar-gets for thieves. On the street, stolen weapons are automatic cash, an easy way to fetch a few hundred dollars.

There they follow the same path as other illegal fi rearms, often disappear-ing for years before turning up in a drug search, a traffi c stop, or pointed at someone else.

SEE SHOPS, A7

GUNS GONE BAD: A PRESS INVESTIGATION

STICKING TO HIS GUNSTHIEVES TARGET SHOP, BUT FELIX PYTLINSKE JR. IS NOT EASILY INTIMIDATED

PRESS PHOTO/MARK COPIER

Business perspective: Felix Pytlinske Jr., shown in his Robinson Township store, says break-ins at gun shops make headlines but account for a only a fraction of illegal guns.

Gun: .44-caliber Magnum Smith & Wesson

Disappeared: Jan. 5, 2001 Time to crime: Nine years, nine months, 28 days

Details: One of 16 guns stolen in a business burglary turns up in Oakland County in November shoot-out with police

FOR MORE ABOUT THIS CASE, SEE PAGE A7

The police term refers to how long a weapon disappears before resurfacing in the wrong hands. For each day of this series, gun traces and Press research detail the firearms’ stories.

TIME TO CRIME

A .44-caliber revolver that went missing for nearly 10 years.

REPORT ILLEGAL GUNS: 616-774-2345 FOR MORE ABOUT THIS SPECIAL GRAND RAPIDS PRESS PARTNERSHIP WITH SILENT OBSERVER, SEE A7

BY SUE THOMS

THE GRAND RAPIDS PRESS

GRAND RAPIDS — Seventeen days after receiving a new heart, Rahn Bentley left the hospital Tuesday on a mission.

“After being helped and loved by so many people through this, I now feel like I need to give back,” said Bentley, who underwent Grand Rapids’ fi rst heart transplant on Nov. 27.

Bentley announced the creation of the Off to See the Wizard Founda-tion, which will help families of organ donors and transplant recipients and fund efforts encouraging organ dona-tions. The foundation’s fi rst goal is to set up a college fund for the sons of Tim Korzen, the Ada Township resident who became an organ donor after he died of bacterial meningitis. Bentley received Korzen’s heart.

“Rahn is pretty amazing,” said his twin brother, Ray, a sports broadcast-er and former Buffalo Bills football player. “This is all his idea — of pay-ing it forward. He knows he has been tremendously blessed, and he wants to pass that on.”

His voice breaking with emotion, Rahn Bentley thanked the doctors, nurses and staff at Spectrum Health’s Meijer Heart Center. He called Kor-zen his “ultimate hero” and praised Korzen’s wife, Peggy, for speaking publicly about the organ donation.

Bentley said he could tell the operation was a success when he awoke and felt the heart beating in

SEE TRANSPLANT, A2

BY KYLA KING

THE GRAND RAPIDS PRESS

GRAND RAPIDS — A private fi rm would take over employee manage-ment and operations of all parking

services at Gerald R. Ford Interna-tional Airport, including the year-old $130 million four-story parking ramp, under a plan being considered today.

Airport Board members are expect-ed to vote on a staff recommenda-tion to outsource parking operations to Chicago-based Standard Parking, which runs airport parking in Chi-cago, Atlanta, Kalamazoo, Traverse City, Flint and Saginaw.

The move is expected to save be-tween $1.5 million and $1.9 million

over five years, but it also means 19 union-represented Kent County employees would have to reapply for jobs that are very likely to have

considerably less pay and benefi ts.Depending on years of seniority,

airport parking attendants who staffSEE PARKING, A2

PRESS PHOTO/EMILY ZOLADZ

New energy: Rahn Bentley, 50, of Kentwood describes how it felt when he woke up with a new heart. He spoke at a press conference Tuesday.

Heart recipient ready ‘to

give back’Rahn Bentley’s foundation

to include college fund for donor’s children

Change ahead? Martin Makel of Hudsonville collects tickets in his parking booth at Gerald R. Ford International Airport, where he has worked for nine years. The Airport Board will vote today on outsourcing parking operations to a private firm.

PRESS PHOTO/EMILY ZOLADZ

Airport expects savings by outsourcing parking

But employees would have to reapply for jobs,

then face pay, benefit cuts

IT’S GOOD TO BE HOMETroops returning from Afghanistan get joyful welcome from friends, family. A3

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THE GRAND RAPIDS PRESS GUNS GONE BAD: A PRESS INVESTIGATION WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2010 A7

CONTINUED FROM A1

Many times they remain in West Michigan. Others have been found in Saginaw, Detroit and beyond.

No one has been caught in the 2006 or 2008 burglaries at Felix’s. Of the 76 weapons, the only one recovered was a .223-caliber rifl e robbers ap-parently dropped not far from the scene, according to state police reports.

But in 2007, Ottawa County sheriff’s deputies arrested three suspected gang members from the Holland area for break-ins at Felix’s and another shop, Gold Coast Outfi tters.

About 50 guns were taken from the businesses. Police re-covered about half.

“We found that most of the guns turned up on the east side of the state, Saginaw and De-troit,” said Ottawa Sheriff ’s Lt. Mark Bennett.

The arrests of the teenagers helped police fi nd many guns

before they hit the street, Ben-nett said.

But Pytlinske said the sen-tence given the only adult isn’t much of a deterrence. Virakone Sivieng, then 18, was sentenced to six months in jail.

A judge also ordered $45,000 in restitution to Felix’s and Gold Coast. Pytlinske isn’t holding his breath.

In the 2006 burglary at Fe-lix’s, Bennett said six of 60 sto-len handguns were returned, while another half-dozen or so are being held by police agencies.

In Grand Rapids, police said three of 12 guns stolen June 14 from Al & Bob’s Sports in Wyo-ming were recovered in Grand Rapids.

One, a .22-caliber Ruger Mark III, was found after sur-veillance on a house in the 700 block of Seventh Street NW on July 21.

Officers Thomas Warwick and Michael Rozema found

the gun in a van police stopped outside of an auto-parts store on Leonard Street.

Authorities suspected pas-senger Jonqual Ernest Shaw, 18, was carrying a fi rearm. War-wick approached the vehicle from the right side.

He said Shaw had a car bat-tery on his lap. As Shaw put the battery down, he lifted it with his left hand by the strap, and put his right hand in his pocket, police said.

“I informed him that if he again pulled his hand down toward his side, he would be shot,” Warwick wrote.

Shaw denied having a gun. He then said he ate a bag of heroin, so police took him to the hospital, where he showed no such signs.

Warwick said Shaw told him, “I should have made you shoot me. I swore I should have made you shoot me.”

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BY JOHN AGAR

THE GRAND RAPIDS PRESS

KENT COUNTY — Nearly 10 years ago, burglars smashed a window at Johnnie Jones’ Rockford-area business. As burglaries go, they hit the jackpot.

Sixteen guns were taken, in-cluding a couple of .357-caliber Rugers, a .44-caliber Magnum Smith & Wesson and a .380-cal-iber Grendel semi-automatic handgun.

One turned up in 2005, when a Mason County man who bought the firearm at a gun show near Saginaw tried to register the weapon. Two years ago, another of the guns was found in a school locker in Iowa.

Last month police found a third, the .44-caliber Magnum. The gun was in the hands of a 16-year-old, shooting at Oak-land County cops.

The gun’s “time to crime,” or how long it takes a disap-peared weapon to turn up in an illegal context: Nine years, nine month and 28 days.

The clock is still ticking on the other 13 stolen fi rearms.

“They change hands so many times from the moment they’re stolen to the moment they’re recovered,” said Sgt. Marc Burns, a detective with the Kent County Sheriff ’s De-partment. “They’re traded for drugs, used in the commission of crime. They steal them from each other.”

It was the commission of a crime when one of Jones’ guns turned up last month in Pontiac.

Undercover officers had been buying illegal drugs and planned a “buy/bust” on Nov. 2 with teenagers selling OxyCon-tin, a prescription painkiller.

When the teens sold vitamin pills instead, an undercover of-fi cer challenged them.

The teens ran. A 16-year-old turned, fi ring the .44-caliber Magnum once. An undercover sheriff’s deputy fi red four shots in return. The teen dropped the gun and gave up, Undersheriff Michael McCabe said.

McCabe said guns found in Oakland County often come from Detroit, Flint and Saginaw, but also from Kent County.

“They come from all over,” he said.

Like many other legal gun owners, Jones, 67, was a vic-tim. A big-game hunter, he had another 25 or 30 guns he had never fi red, including antiques, that thieves missed in the Jan. 5, 2001, burglary.

Police suspect the burglars were startled and left quickly. Electronics, including a big-screen TV and VCR, were untouched.

”Someone knew exactly where to go,” said Jones, who is certain someone, maybe a former worker, knew about his guns, hidden in his offi ce cabinet.

He never imagined anyone would break the double-pane glass in a tall, narrow window to slip inside. Blood and hair was found on the window, He had door alarms, but not for broken windows or motion.

Jones, who has since sold most of his guns, now has alarms throughout his business and home.

His advice: “All guns should be under lock and key. And have motion sensors. I didn’t think they’d get through the window.”

TIME TO CRIME: NINE YEARS, NINE MONTHS AND 28 DAYS

‘THEY COME FROM ALL OVER’STOLEN GUN FOUND IN SHOOTOUT

Seized: Stolen near Rockford, this gun turned up in Pontiac almost 10 years later.

SHOP ARRESTS HELP RECOVER SOME STOLEN GUNS

Targeted three times: Felix Marine & Guns in Robinson Township was hit by burglars in 2006, 2007 and 2008. Arrests were made in the second case, but not yet in the others.

PRESS PHOTO/MARK COPIER

� SUNDAY: How legitimate guns end up in the wrong hands � MONDAY: One gun used in five shootings in Grand Rapids is still on the streets. � TUESDAY: Ride along with a local/federal task force aimed at getting guns off the streets. � TODAY: A look at some gun stores that have been hit by thieves repeatedly.

YOU CAN HELP

Got a tip? Call it inThe Press is joining with Silent Observer to help fund a gun-tip hotline.

OFFERING A TIP If you have information about a lost or stolen gun, call Silent Observer at 616-774-2345. Tipsters stay strictly anonymous. The hotline will pay $250 to callers with information leading to the arrest of someone with an illegal gun. MAKING A DONATIONChecks can be made out to Silent Observer, earmarked for the “gun-tip hotline” and mailed to:Silent Observer, Box 230321, Grand Rapids MI 49523Or go online to: bit.ly/SOhotline

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We profile Chris Cameron, executive director of the state’s second-oldest Silent Observer program, in Sunday’s YourLife section.

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