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[Sauce Dog]

On 8/24/2024 at 1:10 PM, crassus said:

I have been following the thread throughout, and I remember others posting about suspected drug or alcohol abuse, has this been substantiated? I am not suggesting this has any bearing on responsibility or accountability, just curious as to the foundation. 

He has had an alcohol problem going back many, many years. He has been in trouble with the law before for his alcohol abuse, and was even arrested last year for it. Him personally using METH isn't 100% confirmed, but in this case with being associated with several meth heads, and there being some other drug related stories I was given, there is so much smoke I would be surprised if there wasn't at least some fire. 
 

[Domo Arigato]

On 1/15/2024 at 9:52 AM, KindaMistyish said:

Hello all, 

I have the answers to what you want to know (with proof)!

Ok, first off I met Mike Dechellis for the first time on December 22nd 2023 right after he got out of jail. Mike was in jail with my husband (who is still in jail by the way). My husband told me to get ahold of Mike because he told my husband that if I drove him to the impound lot to get his things and then to his office that he had the 2000 to bail out my husband at his office. My husband also said Mike could help me get my website/online business up and running finally. Mike told my husband that he could help because he was running multiple businesses and was a good business man. So after he got out of jail I picked him up from Linn County Jail and drove him to Corvallis to run his errands. We finished and i parked in front of the building where his office is. He told me he would be right back. 45 min later he comes down and says his money hasn't hit yet. I asked him what he meant. He tells me the money from eBay hasn't transfered  to his bank yet. He tells me he would just give it to me when we do my website the following day. A few days later Mike finally texts me to come to his office to start my business website. He said it would only be a "few days task" of getting my business running. So I drove to Corvallis to meet him at his office. On the drive to meet him he sent me a text asking if me or my husband knew of anyone that bought "expensive comics". I didn't but I told Mike I would ask my husband the next time he called me from the jail. A few hours later my husband gave me a number to pass along but Mike no longer wanted the number. I found out why the next few times I was in his office. This guy was on eBay and talking 200 words per min then he was helping me get my business up and running. Like an hour into me being at his office he had to leave and go look at an RV that he got for a great deal of $10,000. And he asked if I would drive him to go pick it up and he would pay me for my time and gas. He told me it was in Brownsville about 25 min away. About a mile from the Brownsville exit he tells me the one he's getting is in Woodburn. 35 minutes later we got to the RV lot and I was just thankful I didn't have to listen to him talk anymore. He asked me to wait until he gets the keys before I left. Just in case the sale fell through. Over 2 hours later he finally is driving his RV out of the lot. He texts me and tells me to meet him at his office and we'll do more work on my website and he'll give me the bail money for my husband and money for driving him to get the RV.  I got back to his office and by now it's almost dark. I text him that I was there and it was getting late and we could work on my website the next day and that I would just like to go bail my husband out of jail. NOTHING... I finally figured at 11pm he wasn't coming back there. And yet again I left back to Salem. On December 29th 2023 I drove up to Corvallis where Mike told me to meet him at his office at noon. A little before noon I texted him to let him know I was outside. Mike finally texts me back at 2pm to let me know he would be to his office shortly. He finally showed up at 3:50pm then we went up to his office again he went straight on eBay. I told Mike I just wanted to see what my website looked like and I had to get to Albany because I had a visit with my husband at the jail. I also asked him I he could jump my car because I drained my battery waiting for him. He hooked up the jumper cables the wrong way and fried my battery. Now I was stuck. He said he would buy me a new battery but it wouldn't be until the next day. I ended up sleeping in my car annoyed and mad. The next morning I texted Mike about the battery. He didn't respond for a few hours and said he was headed to Walmart to get my battery and that he needed 6 batteries for his new RV. Its new years eve and everything was closed. So I was stuck in Corvallis again. Mike showed up to his office after 6 pm and asked me to go up to his office because he had some questions about my website. As im sitting in his office and he starts talking to me I can smell the alcohol. He was drunk. Before we could even talk about my website. He starts telling me things that blew my mind. Mike starts telling me how he was selling his clients comics on eBay because he didn't care and hero restoration was already closed for business, then he tells me that he's been addicted to METH for the past 2 years and he went to jail for drugging his x-girlfriend without her knowing and kicking in her door. He then started saying inappropriate things to me like he had the date rape drug and was going to put it in my soda, tie me up and do sexual things to me. I got the hell out of there an went down to my car and locked the doors. I started my new year in my car freaked out about what had happened. The next morning Mike knocked on my window and says he has a new battery for my car. I opened the hood of my car and he put in the new battery. I told Mike as soon as my husband calls I'm going to tell him what he had said to me and that he was a a nasty creep and I was going to expose him. 

 

This board member made a single post and never responded again.

At the time, I thought the story was just so crazy that it could actually be true.

With all we know now.....I believe every word of it.

 

[awakeintheashes]

On 8/21/2024 at 3:03 PM, Dr. Balls said:

I don’t have it on my phone, but someone needs to put him in the glorious House of Comics house pic.  

[Steven Valdez]

On 8/25/2024 at 9:45 AM, Domo Arigato said:

This board member made a single post and never responded again.

At the time, I thought the story was just so crazy that it could actually be true.

With all we know now.....I believe every word of it.

 

Holy cow, he's far more of a POS than we realised.

[Domo Arigato]

On 8/24/2024 at 9:48 PM, Steven Valdez said:

Holy cow, he's far more of a POS than we realised.

There was a small detail in her post that added a bit more credibility to it for me.

In the body of the post, she referred to Mike as a creep.....then it appears she might have had his contact information stored in her phone as Mike (Creep) as well.

[Chip Cataldo]

Maybe he sold his equipment and people's books to buy drugs. Drugs make people do crazy chit.

[Steven Valdez]

On 8/25/2024 at 1:21 PM, Chip Cataldo said:

Maybe he sold his equipment and people's books to buy drugs. Drugs make people do crazy chit.

I have no doubt of that.

[mmm68]

On 8/24/2024 at 11:21 PM, Chip Cataldo said:

Maybe he sold his equipment and people's books to buy drugs. Drugs make people do crazy chit.

If those are Mike’s text messages, he gives the appearance of seeking to game the statute of limitations. But became desperate for cash and tried to get the buyer of the stolen goods to do that for him instead.

“Whoever’s going to buy it needs to keep in mind it’s hot needs to sit on it.”

So, it would appear that this was a premeditated plan all along.

[Sauce Dog]

On 8/24/2024 at 7:45 PM, Domo Arigato said:

This board member made a single post and never responded again.

At the time, I thought the story was just so crazy that it could actually be true.

With all we know now.....I believe every word of it.

 

It was crazy...but do you all want to know something crazier that will blow your mind?


Allegedly after making that post she went and robbed Mike's comic shop.

He shared surveillance footage with me from the building showing her go in and leave with several bags full of items (Mike's explanation is that she stole his extra set of keys, but the footage and his story sounded fishy so I ceased talking to him at that point due to this now being a serious legal mess I didn't want to get mixed up in - I told him stop talking to me and go to the police. He did say he was going to file a police report). 


 

Edited August 25 by Sauce Dog

[Domo Arigato]

On 8/24/2024 at 11:40 PM, Sauce Dog said:

It was crazy...but do you all want to know something crazier that will blow your mind?
Allegedly after making that post she went and robbed Mike's comic shop.
He shared surveillance footage with me from the building showing her go in and leave with several bags full of items (Mike's explanation is that she stole his extra set of keys, but the footage and his story sounded fishy so I ceased talking to him at that point due to this now being a serious legal mess I didn't want to get mixed up in - I told him stop talking to me and go to the police. He did say he was going to file a police report). 

Did you mention this in here before?  Seems like I had heard something about it.

Come to think of it.....didn't he have two "supposed" robberies that took place?  Either way, I don't believe him.  At this point, it seems like he would invent fake robberies to use as an excuse for why customer books are no longer in his possession.

 

[DR.X]

On 8/25/2024 at 12:43 AM, Domo Arigato said:

 Either way, I don't believe him.  At this point, it seems like he would invent fake robberies to use as an excuse for why customer books are no longer in his possession.

Bingo.

[shadroch]

Never feel bad for defending your friends. Even if it turns out you were wrong, it's what friends do.   

[KCOComics]

On 8/25/2024 at 12:40 AM, Sauce Dog said:

It was crazy...but do you all want to know something crazier that will blow your mind?


Allegedly after making that post she went and robbed Mike's comic shop.

He shared surveillance footage with me from the building showing her go in and leave with several bags full of items (Mike's explanation is that she stole his extra set of keys, but the footage and his story sounded fishy so I ceased talking to him at that point due to this now being a serious legal mess I didn't want to get mixed up in - I told him stop talking to me and go to the police. He did say he was going to file a police report). 


 

 

On 8/25/2024 at 1:43 AM, Domo Arigato said:

Did you mention this in here before?  Seems like I had heard something about it.

Come to think of it.....didn't he have two "supposed" robberies that took place?  Either way, I don't believe him.  At this point, it seems like he would invent fake robberies to use as an excuse for why customer books are no longer in his possession.

 

Yup - don't believe him. 

There was another "robbery" years ago that resulted in a number of customers getting a pay out from insurance claims. 

I hope the detective takes a hard look at that!  Mysterious robberies seem to clean up a lot of problems for Mike. 

[RockMyAmadeus]

[Neo "The One"]

On 8/23/2024 at 12:54 PM, DougC said:

 

Ah, I see. Just dumb criminals being dumb. a simple serial number on the smooth side of that receiver and selling under 15ish of them would have gone a long way to not getting a felony.

 

anyway back to Mike getting out of jail and going on the lam!

They just caught another one of these guys around here with a ghost gun.  The legal system definitely has issues keeping up with technology.

[Copy801]

Got an email yesterday that the detective in charge of the case has begun writing a report containing all the correspondence I shared with them between me and Mike. 

[MAY1979]

On 8/24/2024 at 11:16 PM, Domo Arigato said:

There was a small detail in her post that added a bit more credibility to it for me.

In the body of the post, she referred to Mike as a creep.....then it appears she might have had his contact information stored in her phone as Mike (Creep) as well.

You made a great spot and yep

[thehumantorch]

On 8/24/2024 at 5:45 PM, Domo Arigato said:

On 1/15/2024 at 8:52 AM, KindaMistyish said:

Hello all, 

I have the answers to what you want to know (with proof)!

Ok, first off I met Mike Dechellis for the first time on December 22nd 2023 right after he got out of jail. Mike was in jail with my husband (who is still in jail by the way). My husband told me to get ahold of Mike because he told my husband that if I drove him to the impound lot to get his things and then to his office that he had the 2000 to bail out my husband at his office. My husband also said Mike could help me get my website/online business up and running finally. Mike told my husband that he could help because he was running multiple businesses and was a good business man. So after he got out of jail I picked him up from Linn County Jail and drove him to Corvallis to run his errands. We finished and i parked in front of the building where his office is. He told me he would be right back. 45 min later he comes down and says his money hasn't hit yet. I asked him what he meant. He tells me the money from eBay hasn't transfered  to his bank yet. He tells me he would just give it to me when we do my website the following day. A few days later Mike finally texts me to come to his office to start my business website. He said it would only be a "few days task" of getting my business running. So I drove to Corvallis to meet him at his office. On the drive to meet him he sent me a text asking if me or my husband knew of anyone that bought "expensive comics". I didn't but I told Mike I would ask my husband the next time he called me from the jail. A few hours later my husband gave me a number to pass along but Mike no longer wanted the number. I found out why the next few times I was in his office. This guy was on eBay and talking 200 words per min then he was helping me get my business up and running. Like an hour into me being at his office he had to leave and go look at an RV that he got for a great deal of $10,000. And he asked if I would drive him to go pick it up and he would pay me for my time and gas. He told me it was in Brownsville about 25 min away. About a mile from the Brownsville exit he tells me the one he's getting is in Woodburn. 35 minutes later we got to the RV lot and I was just thankful I didn't have to listen to him talk anymore. He asked me to wait until he gets the keys before I left. Just in case the sale fell through. Over 2 hours later he finally is driving his RV out of the lot. He texts me and tells me to meet him at his office and we'll do more work on my website and he'll give me the bail money for my husband and money for driving him to get the RV.  I got back to his office and by now it's almost dark. I text him that I was there and it was getting late and we could work on my website the next day and that I would just like to go bail my husband out of jail. NOTHING... I finally figured at 11pm he wasn't coming back there. And yet again I left back to Salem. On December 29th 2023 I drove up to Corvallis where Mike told me to meet him at his office at noon. A little before noon I texted him to let him know I was outside. Mike finally texts me back at 2pm to let me know he would be to his office shortly. He finally showed up at 3:50pm then we went up to his office again he went straight on eBay. I told Mike I just wanted to see what my website looked like and I had to get to Albany because I had a visit with my husband at the jail. I also asked him I he could jump my car because I drained my battery waiting for him. He hooked up the jumper cables the wrong way and fried my battery. Now I was stuck. He said he would buy me a new battery but it wouldn't be until the next day. I ended up sleeping in my car annoyed and mad. The next morning I texted Mike about the battery. He didn't respond for a few hours and said he was headed to Walmart to get my battery and that he needed 6 batteries for his new RV. Its new years eve and everything was closed. So I was stuck in Corvallis again. Mike showed up to his office after 6 pm and asked me to go up to his office because he had some questions about my website. As im sitting in his office and he starts talking to me I can smell the alcohol. He was drunk. Before we could even talk about my website. He starts telling me things that blew my mind. Mike starts telling me how he was selling his clients comics on eBay because he didn't care and hero restoration was already closed for business, then he tells me that he's been addicted to METH for the past 2 years and he went to jail for drugging his x-girlfriend without her knowing and kicking in her door. He then started saying inappropriate things to me like he had the date rape drug and was going to put it in my soda, tie me up and do sexual things to me. I got the hell out of there an went down to my car and locked the doors. I started my new year in my car freaked out about what had happened. The next morning Mike knocked on my window and says he has a new battery for my car. I opened the hood of my car and he put in the new battery. I told Mike as soon as my husband calls I'm going to tell him what he had said to me and that he was a a nasty creep and I was going to expose him. 

 

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This board member made a single post and never responded again.

At the time, I thought the story was just so crazy that it could actually be true.

With all we know now.....I believe every word of it.

What a mess.  Yes, based on what we know and what's happened with Mike's customer's books this goes from crazy and hard to believe to believable.  I hope Mike gets help for his drug and alcohol addiction problems during a long, long, stint in jail. 

[Neo "The One"]

On 8/24/2024 at 11:16 PM, Domo Arigato said:

There was a small detail in her post that added a bit more credibility to it for me.

In the body of the post, she referred to Mike as a creep.....then it appears she might have had his contact information stored in her phone as Mike (Creep) as well.

OMG

[Neo "The One"]

On 8/25/2024 at 12:40 AM, Sauce Dog said:

It was crazy...but do you all want to know something crazier that will blow your mind?


Allegedly after making that post she went and robbed Mike's comic shop.

He shared surveillance footage with me from the building showing her go in and leave with several bags full of items (Mike's explanation is that she stole his extra set of keys, but the footage and his story sounded fishy so I ceased talking to him at that point due to this now being a serious legal mess I didn't want to get mixed up in - I told him stop talking to me and go to the police. He did say he was going to file a police report). 


 

I’m not the “King” of speculation but I’ll give it a stab.  “I’ll give you these books cheap if you make it look like a robbery” gets people off his back thinking they were stolen and puts in an insurance claim. Too far fetched?! {{{EDIT}}} I see some gents have beat me to this idea!

Edited August 25 by Neo "The One"
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