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$25,000 Loose Diamond Pulled From A Shower Drain!
This $25,000 diamond was pulled out of a jail drain!
ORANGE — The $25,000 diamond sat undiscovered in a bathroom drain at Theo Lacy Jail for more than a year.
Hundreds of inmates showered and shaved in the Theo Lacy shower but only one – a suspected jewel thief – knew the nearly perfect 2-carat rock lay just below the surface.
Snatched out of the Jewelry Express in the Westminster Mall in April 2005, the diamond had been swallowed and regurgitated over and over by Bret Langdon, a suspected jewel thief, as he moved around in the jail system. Since his last move, it had been in the drain for 14 months.
A signed court order presented Wednesday forced deputies to search a specific shower drain for the diamond.
As they searched through the muck – they fished out the rock – a brilliant round cut. Langford confessed the diamond was his; he had been keeping it with him for almost two years while waiting for trial, Sheriff's Department spokesman Jim Amormino said.
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Comments
That's disgusting, yet at the same time, totally cool.
Posted by: Tamar Weinberg on March 13, 2007 3:21 PM
what a cool way to de-value a diamond...LOL!
Posted by: Judah on March 13, 2007 3:35 PM
What a interesting story and I wonder what made him tell it was there. It has to be terrible to be the people who had to go through the drain it had to be nasty.
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Posted by: Mia on August 21, 2007 1:37 PM