Western Washington University has almost half a million state, Federal, and Canadian documents. In February 2006, we suffered the theft of hundreds of pages (mostly maps and illustrations) from Congressional Serial Set volumes. All the Federal publications dated from before we became a depository in 1964 so they are state, not Federal, property. Working with university police as well as local state and Federal law enforcement officials and after purchasing some of our stolen property, we were integral in capturing and convicting the thief. Details can be found in several places, such as in my Fall DLC 2009 presentation, "Protecting Rare Government Documents: Lessons From A Theft" and on Criminal Brief. What follows is some of what we learned.