[Mintjulep]

Samhass,
It was us that was burglarized. That was my email to our neighbor Gail.

It happened while we were at dinner.
We were home just past 8:30, took our dogs out and noticed a bunch of my small cardboard-type jewelry boxes in the backyard. Empty... Checked our backdoor and they had broken the lock on the bedroom slider.
They had ransacked my jewelry armoire and took all the good stuff. 3 diamond bracelets, several gemstone rings and necklaces, watches. Actually, I'm still remembering things that are missing. But my guesstimate at this point is minimum $3000 worth that was stolen.

But I cannot say enough good things about the Sumter County Sheriffs
Dept. They were here in a heartbeat, so extremely polite and professional. And took everything so seriously.
They brought in dogs, a German Shepard and a Bloodhound. And even a helicopter. And at one point we probably had nearly 10 police cars in front of our house, talking to the neighbors and etc.
The crime lab guy was here til past 4:30AM fingerprinting and taking DNA samples.
They all kept telling us how sorry they were that this happened to us.
And the 2 detectives who were at our house at 9AM the next morning were also just wonderful to us.
They kept saying they would work as hard as they could for us to get this solved and hopefully recover my jewelry.
I owed a business that was broken into a few years ago in NC and didn't get a tenth this much attention from the police.

I hope they can recover some of my special pieces that were taken,
but the main thing to us is that we were unharmed.
And neither were our dogs that were in the house at the time...