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RitcheyRch
03-09-2007, 10:12 AM
http://cbs2.com/local/local_story_068092002.html
A $25,000 diamond was found stuck in a shower drain at the Orange County prison where the man accused of stealing it two years ago is serving time.
Prisoner Bret Allen Langford was charged with commercial burglary for the theft of a two-carat colorless diamond in April 2005.
That diamond hadn't been found -- until this week, when an investigator representing Langford told jail officials to search the jailhouse drains if they wanted to find the stone.
Langford confessed that he swallowed and regurgitated the rock each time he was transferred to a different prison.
But 14 months ago, just as he was about to be searched, Langford said he threw the diamond into a shower stall and it fell down the drain.
Officials say the diamond will serve as evidence in Langford's upcoming trial before it's cleaned and returned to the store it went missing from.