Major collection of Northwest baseball material stolen today in Seattle WA (Dec 18th)

[Jay Wolt]

Originally Posted by dbrown

http://q13fox.com/2014/12/19/stolen-...pect-arrested/

SEATTLE — Police recovered stolen Seattle Mariners memorabilia, including jerseys worn by Edgar Martinez and other former team members, and arrested the suspected thief Friday after tracing him through fingerprints he left behind at Safeco Field, police said.

A thief climbed over a fence at Safeco Field at about 4 a.m. Thursday and broke glass display cases in and around Edgar’s Cantina inside, police said. He then piled the memorabilia into garbage bags and hauled it all away.

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Glad they caught the bum

[perezfan]

Great News! Just saw it reported on King 5...

So glad they caught the creep. Hoping it's recovered in-full and in the same condition!

[veloce]

Fantastic display... I hope there are no losses or damage and that the lender and Mariners are willing to put the display back together. As a Canadian collector who hopes to see my first Safeco game in 2015, I would love to see the items in person.

Great news, thank goodness!

[Vintagecatcher]

Good Karma!


Patrick

[slidekellyslide]

Great news!!!

[Wite3]

Glad he was caught...glad the stuff was recovered.

Joshua

[jcmtiger]

YES!!! That was fast. Great News.

Joe

[ALR-bishop]

Since they were going to his house to arrest him based on fingerprints and surveillance footage from the scene, I wonder why they did not have a search warrant in hand when they arrived.

[dlfallen]

Fantastic news! I'm as happy as a clam at high tide!

[grainsley]

At that point they likely didn't have enough grounds to believe the property was in there, it could well have been in a storage locker, or elsewhere, but they certainly had grounds to arrest/interrogate the perp based on prints/video. Observation of the property during the course of the arrest gave them all the grounds they needed to obtain a warrant for the house. (I'm assuming U.S. criminal law is similar to Canadian). Feel free to correct me if I am wrong.

[seattlerainiers]

As reported earlier in the thread and via media here in Seattle, it appears there will be a very fortunate and favorable resolution to this theft. At this point, it looks like most everything has been recovered, except for a 1908 Vancouver/Spokane NWL championship inscribed trophy ball.

Thanks VERY MUCH for all of the support, concern and efforts, both public and private from all of my friends in the hobby, both within and outside of Net54. I'd specifically like to give major thanks to my good friends Mark M, Andrew J and Conor D for springing into action shortly after they learned of the theft. Great fellows and friends one and all. And thank you again Leon, for the "stickiness"...super glad it wasn't sticky for long.

I'll thank a lot of you personally as well, and if I miss anyone, please know that I greatly appreciate your friendship and hobby kinship. Tis the season indeed!

Special thanks will also go out to SPD and their CSI unit, and a number of my good friends with the Mariners who also sprung into action, and care deeply about our regional baseball history, and what it represents.

Happy holidays to all, accompanied by large dose of my heartfelt gratitude.

Dave