And he was a thief before he was a junky, takes money to get a drug habit. Certainly a big chunk of it was the family not taking the raising of him seriously and kicking him out of the house.
How are the neighbors supposed to know? They go to work, they live their life, one day they go into the storage shed and stuff they could have sworn was there isn’t. They don’t know when it disappeared, and they don’t know who took it. House “cleanings” are pretty rare, though they’ll happen, mostly it’s about grabbing enough stuff for one fix and getting out. Of course even when they do “clean” a house it’s a basic suburban neighborhood, there’s thousands of other houses within walking distance, and a “cleaned” house can provide enough dope for months.
You’re living in the land of theory, out here in the land of reality you’ll NEVER price junkies out of the market.
I don't want to argue, families and neighbors are victims of drug users.
It is not just the price, it is the lack of availability.
If your nephew-in-law had been arrested and sent to prison it would have solved a lot of the problems. It would have helped if your family had taken the thousands of pawn slips and turned him in.