An apartment mistakenly donated a resident’s deceased father’s belongings. Do you know where they are?

IDAHO FALLS — After an unfortunate string of events, a local apartment complex manager is trying to right an accidental wrong.

Early Sunday morning, Kaesha Smith, the apartment community manager at Meadows at Parkwood and Parkwood Pointe Apartment Homes, reached out to EastIdahoNews.com with a desperate plea to help her find items belonging to a resident that were accidentally donated.

“I’m reaching out with a heavy heart, hoping you can help,” said Smith in an email to EastIdahoNews.com. “I’m a local apartment community manager, and on (Jan. 9), while I was in Boise for work, I learned that I had made a terrible mistake.”

According to Smith, a “wonderful young man” and resident at the complex, Brendan Treib, who is partially deaf and has memory cognitive impairment, kept the belongings of his deceased father in his garage.

On Jan. 9, a maintenance crew was cleaning out what they thought was a previous resident’s storage – but it was actually Treib’s.

“Recently, my maintenance team was cleaning out a garage they thought was a past resident, and I instructed them to take the items to the DI,” says Smith. “Later that day, my assistant called to tell me that this young man’s mother had reached out, and when she mentioned the garage number, my heart sank. I immediately knew what she was about to say.”

Smith learned the maintenance team had accidentally cleaned out Treib’s garage and donated his belongings to a local Deseret Industries (DI) thrift store, including many items belonging to his father, who had passed away.

The missing items include a couch, a recliner, a television, a table, and a crate for Treib’s service dog, Roxy.

“They were irreplaceable, and he was devastated. As (Treib’s mother) spoke, I could feel the tears streaming down my face,” says Smith. “I had made an honest but deeply painful mistake.”

Smith says the items were donated to the DI location on 17th Street in Ammon by Sonic on Jan. 9. Since then, Smith, her employees and the Treib family have been searching for the items, but have had no luck recovering them.

“As a community manager, my job is to protect and support my residents, to make them feel safe and valued,” says Smith. “I let him down. I let his mother down. And I feel absolutely sick about it.”

Smith has also posted in local Facebook groups but has had no luck.

“I’m truly begging for your help in getting the word out,” says Smith. “If we can locate the buyers, we may have a chance to reunite this young man with his father’s belongings.”

If you purchased these items and want to return them to Treib or know where they are, call Smith at (208) 403-4086 or email her at parkmeadmgr@capstonelifestyle.com.

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