Warehouse owner determined to reunite people with life’s possessions after movers leave shipments
By Matt Flener
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LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (KMBC) — Kelly Cline has spent weeks contacting people across the United States to let them know their life’s possessions are abandoned in her warehouse.
In the two weeks since she regained possession of her building from a moving company, she has reunited nine people who hired cross-country movers with their original shipments. Four are planning to pick up their stuff in the coming weeks. She’s connected with dozens more.
“I have over 50 victims,” she said. “They’re all over the United States.”
The moving company, Logistic Moving Services Inc., left behind two floors of shipments linked to brokers and carriers with hundreds of complaints, according to federal transportation records.
Cline’s phone is now filled with texts and social media messages from people who hired those companies seeking any information on their birth certificates, precious jewelry, mattresses and mementos they cannot find.
Several of those people with items in Cline’s warehouse, like U.S. Army Lt. Col. Joe Mangiameli, have contacted KMBC 9 Investigates to tell their stories.
Mangiameli told KMBC that a family member hired movers. He was serving overseas at the time.
He estimates his family has now spent over $30,000 more than originally quoted for a move across the country for a new job.
“This is, this is decades’ worth of memories,” he said. “This is stuff that you know is very meaningful to us.”
Mangiameli has seen KMBC 9’s Relocation Ripoff investigation and wanted to come forward to prevent this from happening again.
KMBC asked Mangiameli what he would tell federal authorities about holding moving companies accountable.
“I have served on four combat tours,” he said. “I take protecting the country pretty seriously, so I would ask them to do the same.”
Cline now is determined to reunite Mangiameli with the last of his outdoor furniture still in her warehouse.
LANDLORDS EVICTED COMPANY FROM BUILDING AFTER COURT FIGHT Cline and her husband Donnie just evicted Logistic Moving Services, Inc. from the building after a pattern of nonpayment and customers calling to say they tracked items to her warehouse using GPS locators. Some of those victims included customers of Howards Vanlines.
Customers of Howards and other moving companies have told KMBC 9 Investigates they paid a deposit, got upcharged thousands on moving day and never received their things.
Cline found paperwork inside the building linked to multiple moving companies across the country. One of the companies, Logistic Moving Services, is linked to Eli Hasut, a man who represented himself in the Cline’s eviction case before a judge as the company’s representative.
A man with a similar name shows up in a database for Trunk, a moving industry research company that provides transparency with federal moving records.
Trunk found Logistic shared the same Georgia address as Handle With Care Moving and Transportation LLC, a carrier with 147 complaints whose authority was revoked in March 2026.
Both are linked to an individual named Moran Eli Hasut (also known as Elad Hasut, Eli Davis, Allan Davis), according to Trunk. FMCSA’s own registration system lists Elad Hasut as the officer of Handle With Care.
Hasut dodged questions from KMBC 9 Investigates for weeks after a court hearing last month. KMBC has tried to call him several times without a response.
Logistic administratively dissolved in Georgia in 2022, according to court records.
KMBC has now tracked items from the warehouse Logistic rented in Leavenworth to a new warehouse in Trimble, Missouri.
LANDLORD NEEDS HELP GETTING IN CONTACT WITH PEOPLE, RAISING AWARENESS After Logistic’s eviction, Cline has set up a Facebook group to help people reunite with their things.
Two families have contacted her to say they don’t have money to move the rest of their belongings. She’s asking the community to step up and help. She has set up a command center inside her warehouse to organize everyone’s contact information.
“We’ve had a kid come in from Los Angeles,” she said. “Somebody is coming Thursday from Arizona.”
Cline is also pleading for help from federal authorities to investigate the widespread problem with Household Goods Moving Fraud.
She wanted to raise awareness to federal authorities about just how easy it is for moving companies to spin up new companies when they receive complaints.
“They just change the name and they don’t even change the address.”
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