After 20-year-old Dandre Turk and his frienda were arrested on suspicion of robbery last week, Canton, Ohio police guessed that he may have swallowed a missing two-carat diamond ring worth $30,000. The theory proved correct, police said, when the ring was found in the toilet inside his jail cell.
"We did suspect him of swallowing the ring," said Major Dave Zink of the Jackson Township Police Department. "We were going to X-ray him-- instead, we alerted the jail that whenever he had a movement to scrutinize it."
Sure enough, one course of prison cuisine was all it took. Stark County sanitary workers were called to the county jail and sucked the ring-laden turd out of the toilet.
How could authorities be sure the diamond ring, in an 18-karat white gold setting, was taken from the jewelry store robbery in question? It still had a price tag, according to the county sheriff's office. The sheriff's office photographed the ring and tagged it as evidence to be turned over to the township police department.
"It's pretty difficult for them to say they weren't involved now," Zink said.
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