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The Laminated Card: How a Dry-Cleaner Ran Dellridge's Protection Racket

The Laminated Card: How a Dry-Cleaner Ran Dellridge's Protection Racket

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The Laminated Card: How a Dry-Cleaner Ran Dellridge's Protection Racket

A faded laminated card pulled from a culvert on Fenwick Mill Road in mid-October 2011 turned out to list thirty-one addresses and two-letter codes that quietly ran a protection racket for over a decade. How did Owens Premium Dry Cleaning, a civic-facing business with four storefronts and a white van, hide $12,000-$15,000 a month in skimmed payments through commercial bookkeeping and city payroll schemes - and who inside the municipality kept it secret?

In this episode, we trace the discovery and immediate chain of events after Sandra Evans handed the card to her supervisor, how the Dellridge Police financial crimes unit received it the same day, and the tangled municipal and business records that raised the core question: who inside Dellridge enabled the racketeering payments?

Person: Sandra Evans
Date: mid-October 2011
Business: Owens Premium Dry Cleaning
Amount: $12,000-$15,000 per month
Connection: George Fenn, Dellridge licensing bureau administrator

- The laminated card contained thirty-one addresses printed in two columns, each followed by a two-digit number and a single letter (C or N).
- Roy Owens was sixty-three years old in 2011 and owned four Owens Premium storefronts plus Tri-State Linen LLC.
- The van visited Calloway Flats businesses twice weekly, on Tuesdays and Fridays, displaying a wire-hanger logo.
- Accounting subpoenas reconstructed $12,000-$15,000 per month routed through invoice lines for fuel and maintenance that did not match actual services.
- George Fenn recorded forty-seven cash payments in his handwriting over nine years while working at the Dellridge licensing bureau.

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