Crime & Safety

$20K in Jewelry Stolen While Woman Stays in Hospital

A woman finds her jewelry has been stolen when she returns from the hospital.

A woman told police that more than $20,000 in jewelry was stolen from her apartment while she spent a month in the hospital.

According to police, the woman lives in the 600 block of Cathedral Road, and that she needed to go to the hospital on Aug. 27.

Several weeks after the woman was released from the hospital on Oct. 3, she noticed that several pieces of jewelry were missing from her apartment.

The stolen jewelry included various diamonds, gold chains and a diamond wrist watch.

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