Arrest made in $60,000 theft case

By SUSAN TAFT Contributor to The Pittsburg Gazette

Sixty thousand dollars’ worth of jewelry has been returned to its owner, and Jose Miguel Garcia-Martinez, 19, of Mount Pleasant has been charged with the . “ e jewelrywas reported stolen on Jan. 5. e owners had been out of town for the weekend, and returned to nd the jewelry gone,” Sheri Alan McCandless said. “We interviewed everyone who had been in the house within the past few days. at included Garcia-Martinez, a contract laborer.” In an interview with Sheri McCandless and Chief Deputy Randal Lain Jr., Garcia-Martinez said he had helped move the nightstand where the jewelry was kept, but he denied seeing, or taking, it.

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