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-Lurid Crime Tales-
$25,000 diamond found in shower drain
2007-03-11
ORANGE, California - A $25,000 diamond was found stuck in a shower drain at the prison housing the man accused of stealing it two years ago. Bret Allen Langford, 39, allegedly asked the owner of a jewellery store to show him a 2-carat colourless diamond in April 2005. Langford then grabbed the diamond and sped away, said sheriffÂ’s spokesman Jim Amormino.

Langford was arrested shortly after but the police did not retrieve the diamond. Langford was charged with commercial burglary and, after several transfers, ended up at a jail in Orange, California, where he awaited trial.

This week, an investigator representing Langford told jail officials to search the jailhouse drains if they wanted to find the diamond. Officials discovered the rock wedged in a screen beneath one of the facilityÂ’s shower stalls.
Posted by:Steve White

#3  It's typical for jewel snatchers to swallow the goods, so they are usually x-rayed. But an inventive fellow had a better idea. After he palmed a stone, then flipped a stone-sized piece of glass across the room, he put the real stone in a piece of gum he had been chewing, and stuck it to the underside of a table in the store.

He figured a confederate would later recover the stone. And it might have worked except he had a years old outstanding warrant for an unrelated offense that he didn't even know about.

Weeks later, while cleaning the store, they found the gum with the diamond in it.

So they added an additional charge to his old offense.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2007-03-11 15:55  

#2  You just pick up the soap, we'll find the ring, lol!
Posted by: rhodesiafever   2007-03-11 14:10  

#1  Then it will be cleaned and returned to the store.

Where it will be seriously discounted.
Posted by: Shipman   2007-03-11 00:36  

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