Police Officer Finds Lost $20,000 Engagement Ring At LI Beach

A Suffolk County Police officer located a lost engagement ring at a beach on Fire Island Sunday.

A Pennsylvania woman, who was visiting Fire Island, called police on Saturday after she lost the ring. Marine Bureau Police Officer Robert Warrington responded and searched the home where she was staying at, and Atlantique Beach but did not find the ring, valued at more than $20,000. Officer Warrington asked Marine Bureau Police Officer Edmund McDowell to bring McDowell’s personal metal detector to work on Sunday.

McDowell, who was assisted by the woman’s friend, set up a grid pattern around where the woman was sitting at Atlantique Beach. After approximately 10 minutes of searching, the metal detector set off and the officer located the ring in the sand around 11:30 a.m. The woman’s friend will deliver the ring to its owner in Pennsylvania tonight.

It's the second time McDowell used his metal detector to locate someone’s missing ring on a beach.