Casshew
01-03-2004, 11:58 AM
LOL... notice the suspects last name ;)
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OWENSBORO, Ky. - Police charged a woman Friday with stealing 50 antique glass eyes from a hospital display case on Christmas Eve.
Melissa Jane Wink, 36, of Owensboro, was charged with theft by unlawful taking over $300.
A surveillance camera recorded the theft from an exhibit of medical artifacts at Owensboro Medical Health System. A picture of the suspect was publicly released several days later.
The eyes were valued at $2,500. The hospital had mistakenly reported the eyes were worth $100,000, which was actually the value of the exhibit collection. The eyes were recovered at a house Wink was staying in.
Police Detective Ed Krahwinkel said he wasn't sure why someone would steal the eyes; there isn't high demand on the black market for them.
Full Story Yahoo News (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20040103/ap_on_fe_st/glass_eye_theft&e=4)
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OWENSBORO, Ky. - Police charged a woman Friday with stealing 50 antique glass eyes from a hospital display case on Christmas Eve.
Melissa Jane Wink, 36, of Owensboro, was charged with theft by unlawful taking over $300.
A surveillance camera recorded the theft from an exhibit of medical artifacts at Owensboro Medical Health System. A picture of the suspect was publicly released several days later.
The eyes were valued at $2,500. The hospital had mistakenly reported the eyes were worth $100,000, which was actually the value of the exhibit collection. The eyes were recovered at a house Wink was staying in.
Police Detective Ed Krahwinkel said he wasn't sure why someone would steal the eyes; there isn't high demand on the black market for them.
Full Story Yahoo News (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20040103/ap_on_fe_st/glass_eye_theft&e=4)