HELP WANTED: Let’s help support Arizona local seniors and veterans with free technology training
AGN.News Team
July 21, 2025
PHOENIX (AGN.News) – OPINION: One our greatest assets in the education of future generations is the ones who lived before them namely, the senior citizens. This is a story about #JonsSamsung. ‘Jon’ is a senior citizen living in Arizona whose Samsung tablet is still missing. He’s an asset to his community. Let’s follow the events ‘Jon’ experienced.
The reason is obvious. Our senior community has been there and done or seen the things that occurred and are able to help navigate the next generation through the pitfalls and dangers on the road to living a better future. One of the major problems seniors face is the lack of respect in todays society.
One only has to listen at the young describe our seniors. “They’re in the way!” “Why don’t they just stay home!” They’re holding us back!” And on and on they go berating the seniors as they encounter them in public spaces. However, it’s not just the young who’re prone to echo those thoughts. Their adult parents or the adults next door often sound the same way.
All of these groups with those attitudes have missed the whole point of what aging is…a process that they’re going through every day they live. They’re the new and later they’ll be the old and act just like the ones they’re complaining about today.
Negative attitudes are contagious…
Lack of respect is dominating our society. That may help us understand why crimes are being committed against our senior communities across the country.
It’s very hard to respect those who you look down on. Rather than respect it breeds contempt. It actually becomes a part of society that acts on those impulses. Therein comes the birth of criminal behavior. Negative attitudes are contagious.
Let’s look at one rather unique case of criminal behavior manifested against a retiree living in a senior community. We’re going to call him ‘Jon’ to protect his privacy. ‘Jon’ has always been a caring man. In business for decades, he trained over 300 professionals who followed him into business. He cared about the next generation just like his father’s generation cared about his generation.
Helping the next generation is a must!
He help shape these 300 young men and women into a professional community that still exists today. After retirement he went to work laying the foundation for the next generation of tech workers and business owners by creating shortcuts to acquire the learning and the skills of today that would be needed tomorrow.
He spent over 12 years writing lesson plans, tips on customer relations, how to avoid getting distracted by materialism, and many other subjects. In total he wrote over 15,000 articles on various business subjects. Creating your own business was one of the main subjects. That was important to ‘Jon’ because of the devaluing of the dollar.
Crimes against seniors are growing…
About a year ago ‘Jon’ noticed his home was broken into by those who wanted to steal his belongings and steal they did. They stole some of his tools. They came back and stole one of his computers. On October 12, 2024, they came back. This time they stole all of his lesson plans from his computer. While there, they went on a shopping spree for anything they could see and take.
In November 2024, they returned to take a buffet of items they saw and wanted. Instead of bring gifts for the holidays, they retuned to steal data. They again raided the computer. While there, they decided to lay waste to everything digital they could find.
In March and April the bandits returned to get what they could from the replacement computer. This time they destroyed the computer on the way out the door. On June 24, 2025, the thieves came back. This time they came for the 11″ Samsung Galaxy type tablet.
How they got away with the Samsung
On the morning of June 24, 2025 at around 5:30 am, ‘Jon’ left home to go get food. Knowing he was going shopping the following week, he shopped just what he needed for the next few days. Since it’s over 110 degrees here everyday he started early so he could get back home before the heat wave came calling.
When he returned he once again noticed another burglary. This time his beloved Samsung was gone. Filled with grief over the lost of many gigabytes of data it took over 12 years to assemble and the fact that Labor Day week was just a few weeks away for the start of his Senior and Veteran Tech Class, ‘Jon’ was so downhearted that the police came to investigate. It was like the thief vanished in thin air.
That was not the end. On Monday, July 7, 2025, he went shopping again. He went early in the morning because he had some appointments he was committed to later that day. When he returned home he started to unload the groceries and carry them into the house. Below the groceries was his notebook with over 100 pages. It was already getting warm when he decided to take the frozen food into the house and put it them in the freezer.
That took about 2 minutes. He stepped out the door and the notebook was gone. That quick, it too was gone. ‘Jon’ almost lost it! He said, “This is a community of seniors. How could this become a cave of thieves? Who among us could it be? Now, these thieves have taken everything of value relating to the Senior Class.”
The police returned his home!
He called the police again. This is the 16th burglary in nine months. At this point, he was unsure of anything. How did the notebook vanish that quick? There were many questions an almost no answers. Police was asking questions and he said his answers were confusing the police. For one thing he couldn’t explain how it happened.
Depression finally set in. “All of these losses and no wins”, he said. ‘Jon’ added, “It’s like playing an honest game with a crooked deck of cards.”
Now, ‘Jon’ realized his home was a crime scene. Months of calling the police was a depressing thought. He told us that he never looked so out of sorts in his life. Calling the police over and over again because people around him was busy committing crimes against him.
In total, 14 computers were destroyed (his own and the ones his friends loaned him). There were 22 cellphones destroyed so he could not call the police. But they forgot “911” will still work on any charged phone. “There I am again answering, ‘911, what is your emergency?’ coming out of a broken phone.”
The low note for ‘Jon’ was, there were no suspects. However, on Wednesday, July 9, 2025, ‘Jon’ was heading out again. This time he was going on an hours-long errand. Now he’s carrying books to read and study as if the Senior event is going to happen in September.
WOW! “The notebook returned home!”
He arrived at his destination, still feeling the sting of the disappearing notebook. He parked his car. He walked around to the other side and opened the rear door and low and behold, the notebook was back in the exact place it was when it vanished. He said, “I thought it was an illusion.” “I couldn’t believe it, my notebook came home”.
He tried to figure out when was it placed in the car. “Maybe when I went back in the house to turn out the lights. Maybe, it was when I first opened the door and went back inside to get the bags. I don’t know but I’m so glad the notebook returned home!”
The Samsung is still missing…
His joy was tempered by the thought of the missing Samsung. Here’s where the public can help. ‘Jon’ said social media can help. Obviously, the stolen notebook was returned by the same people or person who stole (borrowed) the Samsung. They’re probably afraid the return the Samsung tablet out of fear of prosecution.
‘Jon’ said he has no desire to press charges against anyone. He just wants his Samsung Galaxy tablet back. It’s more important to get the Samsung back in tack just like the notebook. There was nothing missing from the notebook and that’s what ‘Jon’ wants more than anything. There are a lot of seniors who have a right to learn about technology from people want to help them free of charge.
If you can help bring the Samsung home you can do so by posting this story on you social media page with the hashtag #JonsSamsung with a link to this page.
Your help is desperately needed. Let’s help support local seniors and veterans by helping them get free technology training. All of the source material was taken during a series of burglaries. The data taken is irreplaceable.
‘Jon’ needs his Samsung back. If the people who took the 11′ Samsung is reading this article, be assured ‘Jon’ just wants his Samsung returned. Seniors live on fixed budgets with no increases so buying one is out of reach. That’s around $400 unless a vendor has a sale on a Samsung Galaxy Tablet A9+ 11″ Android.
You can contact ‘Jon’ using the ‘Contact Us” tab below and we’ll make sure he gets the message. Or if you want to send one to ‘Jon’ you can do so by sending it to ‘Jon’ using the hashtag #’Jon’sSamsung C/O El Mirage Police Department: 12401 W Cinnabar Ave. El Mirage, Arizona 85335
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