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By: Lisa Marchesoni

Posted: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 3:10 pm

Burglars escaped with more than $45,000 worth of jewelry from one home, 14 firearms from a second home and almost $10,000 in jewelry and property from a third home, sheriff’s deputies reported.

Victim Melissa Lane of East Lyon Road reported burglars stole expensive jewelry from her home while she was on vacation last week, Deputy Daniel Thomas reported.

Items stolen included a Smith and Wesson handgun, two pairs of earrings, a pair of diamond earrings valued at $5,500, an emerald and diamond ring valued at $5,000, a 2.26-karat solitaire diamond ring valued at $12,000, a 3-karat princess cut diamond ring valued at $12,00, a sapphire and diamond ring valued at $1,000, a five-stone wedding band valued at $2,200 and a diamond ankle bracelet and diamond toe ring valued at $2,750.

Cpl. Joe Duncan reported burglars damaged a two gun safes at Carol R. Mooneyham’s home on Higdon Drive and escaped with 14 firearms with an unknown value.

The firearms included shotguns and rifles. Other items missing included antiques, pens and watches.

In another case, Deputy Brad Harwell reported burglars stole about $9,350 worth of property from victim Paula Todd of West Calgary Road.

Items missing included an $8,000 pair of diamond earrings, a titanium ring, watch, sunglasses, change and $800 worth of DVDs and compact discs.

Tagged under BURGLARY

Member Opinions:

By: tnlonestar on 3/31/09
This is getting to be really bad habit in Murfreesboro. Everyday somthing like this is happening. Whats the world coming too?

By: HuskyLover on 3/31/09
I looks like the bad guys are arming themselves. Bad times are looming, folks!

By: devolver on 4/1/09
These can't be random robberies... who has $45k of jewelry just laying around the house?

By: HuskyLover on 4/1/09
devolver,

You must not be a typical woman. ;-) It only takes 5 or 6 really good pieces of jewelry to rack up a total of $45k.

The robberies mentioned in this article as well as others written recently seem to have a common denominator - the theft of several firearms. I fail to feel much sympathy for the victims since they were obviously irresponsible in leaving that many weapons laying about unsecured.

By: rutherfordcntymom on 4/1/09
I must not be a 'typical woman' either - a random burglary at my house would be very disappointing to the thief LOL... I agree with devolver's comment, these sounded like the thieves at least knew these folks had more than the 'typical' amount of valuables/firearms in their homes (not blaming the victims, just saying)