Farms Police Looking into $365,000 in Jewelry Reported Missing

Shortly after wrapping up one case involving theft of valuable jewelry, detectives are investigating a second, similar but unrelated case in which $365,000 worth of jewelry was stolen. 

A 71-year-old woman called police to report that she found her jewelry missing. She also reported that for months cash had randomly been missing from her purse, according to police reports.

It is not clear when the jewelry was stolen from the home on Vincennes Place, but the appraised value is $365,000. The jewelry included two multi-carat diamond rings, a Rolex watch with diamonds and two necklaces—one pearl and one silver and black onyx. The least expensive piece is valued at $20,000 and the most expensive at $150,000, according to reports.

Detective Lt. Richard Rosati said the theft would appear to be by someone with access to the house. The house was never broken into, nor was there any damage to alert the owner the pieces were gone, he said. 

In a recent unrelated case, a 64-year-old woman made her initial appearance in Grosse Pointe Farms court last week on a felony charge of larceny from a building. The housekeeper is accused of stealing at least two diamond rings valued at $24,500, Rosati said.

In that case, at least one of the rings has been recovered from a pawn shop which had given the woman who stole it $950 for it, he said. 

Grosse Pointe is a "natural target" for this kind of theft, Rosat said. "There are affluent people in Grosse Pointe, that's the perception anyway."

The investigation into the most recent report is just getting underway, he said.