- November 17, 2024
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A 70-year-old woman called the Sheriff’s Office Feb. 9 and said her $15,000 engagement ring was missing.
Susan Westfall, a Hammock resident, said it went missing sometime between Nov. 16 — when she wore the ring, a one-and-one-quarter karat diamond stone surrounded by several smaller diamonds set in a 14-karat white gold band, to church — and Nov. 20, according to a Sheriff’s Office incident report.
She said she wears it only on special occasions, and wasn’t sure if it was lost or stolen. But she said she searched the home thoroughly and couldn’t find it.
She told deputies that no one other than cleaning ladies have access to the house, and that she kept the ring with other jewelry in a box in her bedroom.
None of the other jewelry was missing, and there were no signs of forced entry at the home.
She told deputies she’s always in the house when the cleaning ladies are there, and that she already notified the woman who owns the company, spoken to her two cleaning ladies, and offered a reward of $5,000 if the ring is returned.
She also checked pawn shops in Palatka and Palm Coast. She said she hadn’t reported it earlier because she’d hoped it would be returned, but that her insurance company now required a report.
She reported it as property lost, and not as a larceny.
