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According to Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood, 45-year-old Shaun Burstein — who served as executive director of Arya, a senior living facility in DeBary — is accused of stealing jewelry from elderly residents' rooms and taking it to local pawnshops.
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Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 11 Jan. 2026
Banks are making the argument that such a plan would most hurt poor people, at a time of economic concern, by curtailing or eliminating credit lines, driving them to high-cost alternatives like payday loans or pawnshops.
—Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 10 Jan. 2026
The 17-minute short is also animation art of the highest order, seen in the extraordinary bric-a-brac detail of a pawnshop, lending it an immersive authenticity.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 6 Jan. 2026
The new type of overlay would either outright ban or limit the presence of businesses like beer and cigarette markets, pawnshops and nightclubs in residential areas, even when existing zoning categories on a property would otherwise allow for them.
—Austin Hornbostel, Nashville Tennessean, 10 Oct. 2025
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Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 11 Jan. 2026
Banks are making the argument that such a plan would most hurt poor people, at a time of economic concern, by curtailing or eliminating credit lines, driving them to high-cost alternatives like payday loans or pawnshops.
—Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 10 Jan. 2026
The 17-minute short is also animation art of the highest order, seen in the extraordinary bric-a-brac detail of a pawnshop, lending it an immersive authenticity.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 6 Jan. 2026
The new type of overlay would either outright ban or limit the presence of businesses like beer and cigarette markets, pawnshops and nightclubs in residential areas, even when existing zoning categories on a property would otherwise allow for them.
—Austin Hornbostel, Nashville Tennessean, 10 Oct. 2025
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“Pawnshop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pawnshop. Accessed 24 Jan. 2026.
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pawnshop
noun
pawn·shop
ˈpȯn-ˌshäp 
ˈpän-
: a pawnbroker's shop
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