The medals were being temporarily stored at a Laguna Hills home and were inside a safe that was taken in a burglary.
LAGUNA HILLS, Calif. — Authorities on Thursday were looking for three Olympic medals belonging to a member of the U.S. women’s volleyball team after they were stolen from a Southern California home.
The medals were being temporarily stored at a Laguna Hills home and were inside a safe that was taken in an Oct. 29 burglary, Orange County Sheriff’s Department said.The gold medal was from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the silver from the 2012 London Olympics and the bronze from the 2016 games in Brazil.The three Olympic Games medals that were stolen during the course of a home burglary in Laguna Hills, California.
Jordyn Poulter reported her 2020 gold medal stolen May 25 after her car was broken into at a parking garage in Anaheim, police said.Detectives later arrested a suspect in the theft, but weren’t immediately able to locate the missing medal. It was finally returned in June after the owners of an Anaheim barbershop reported finding the medal inside a plastic bag discarded outside their business and turned it over to police.
A 31-year-old Anaheim resident described by police as having a lengthy criminal history has been charged in the theft.
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