Dispensary Corner 19 Sep 11
September 19, 2011
TOUGH pill to swallow.
A thief was caught red handed after an x-ray revealed a diamond inside his stomach. The strange heist began when a British woman on holiday in Spain discovered her handbag had been stolen from the floor of a restaurant she had been eating at with a friend. Unfortunately, rather than just some sunscreen and a few dollars, the woman’s handbag was carrying a pendant with a £10,000 diamond and around £2,000 cash. Later that day four men, found to have criminal records, were stopped in a car trying to get through a routine checkpoint. An inspection of their vehicle uncovered a plethora of stolen goods, including the handbag, cash and pendant - sans jewel. Police became suspicious when one of the men put his hand to mouth and swallowed. They decided that as the diamond was missing from the pendant there was a strong possibility that it had been imbibed, and an x-ray confirmed suspicions (below). It is not known how the diamond was retrieved.
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