Lori Carroll said she didn’t have the $4,000 diamond ring. Police suspected otherwise. Ten days later, the truth came out.
Carroll, 32, had asked to see the 1-carat ring at a jewelry store in Caesars Palace hotel-casino in Las Vegas on Nov. 8. The clerk handed it to her, but when he turned around, the ring was gone.
Carroll denied having the ring. When a search turned up nothing, she was taken to University Medical Center and X-rayed, and there was the ring, said a police spokesman.
Carroll was taken to the county jail’s medical ward, and on Nov. 18, the ring reappeared.
“We went down and identified the ring. It still had our price tag on it,” said Stuart Anderson, manager of the jewelry store.
Carroll was charged with burglary, grand larceny and possession of stolen property. The ring is being held as evidence, but the store will eventually get it back.
UNMENTIONABLE CRIME
Police investigating the theft of four pairs of women’s undergarments from a clothesline found more than they had bargained for in a town north of Toronto.
They discovered a stash of more than 100 panties and bras in a home in Elmvale, Ontario.
Police are asking residents to step forward if they’ve recently noticed any undergarments missing without explanation.
A 16-year-old male has been charged with numerous offenses including trespassing by night and theft. He was mortified by the police’s discovery of his hidden cache of undergarments, said Constable Mark Kinney.
“The whole family was embarrassed.”
IDIOT BOX
British paramedics answering an emergency call for help arrived to find a distraught family and a broken television, the ambulance service said.
“The occupants were complaining that their television had broken down,” said a spokeswoman for West Midlands Ambulance Service.
The family from Wolverhampton, in central England, made their plea for help on Nov. 21 by dialing the emergency number “999,” which is usually reserved for fire, police or medical emergencies.
The problem is not confined to central England.
In northern England, police are so fed up with nuisance calls to their emergency hot line that they plan to cut off the phones of persistent users.
“Some calls are mind-boggling,” a senior South Yorkshire Police officer said.
One man called the hot line to report a fight between two squirrels, while another rang to complain there was nothing good on television, and a woman called from her car to ask police the time, the paper said.
