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Woman Charged in Strange Jewelry theft case

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

In a rather bizarre theft case, a female (Teresa Tambunting) isthe under suspicion of taking twelve million US in gold and diamond jewelry from her position as vault manager at Queens jewelry store in NEw York and then storing them in her basement at her residence. They found $12 million in gold pieces and other jewelry were missing from the vault. These may have included 10K gold chain, ladies diamond ring, etc.

The female in question had told her family at their evening meal that she was somewhat fearful of the economic conditions of the country. It seems that her particular fears may have had their origins in major the stock market tumoil and her husband Edgardo’s job. All in all, she was fearful that the economy would make her husband lose his job or maybe get downgraded somehow.

For their part, state Prosecutors have stated that during this point in time her and her 3 kids as well as husband were living with raw gold and jewelry hidden in their house basement.. They say the 50-year-old woman over a 6-year time span sneaked tiny items of gold and jewelry into her purse. In addition, she was the vault manager from where the twelve million of gold and jewelry was missing since the early 1990’s. It seems from the reports at hand that she was stealing items like a 10K gold chain, diamond stud earrings, gold cuban chain, bling bling jewelry and various other items. Speaking for myself, I think that I might have taken the 10K gold chain if I had worked there and wanted to do the rip-off thing.

In conclusion, the suspect was charged with grand larceny and released on $100,000 bail. She is said to be planning her defense with her lawyer, which may actually include a defense of obsessive-compulsive disorder. That should tie up the New York court system for a good long while as they make up some new disease to justify her crimes, if she in fact did it. naturall, though, she is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

Cause of Tragic Death of ODB confirmed

Monday, May 18th, 2009

The music world has still not fully recovered from the sudden and untimely death several years ago of ODB, aka Ol’ Dirty Bastard, the hip hop performer known as much for his trademark gold teeth and bling bling jewelry as for his music.
After he tragically fell down and died in a New York City music studio, the cause of his death is now known to be a narcotics overdose.
It was apparently a mixture of legal and illegal narcostics, according to the various media reports.
All in all, his unfortunate and sad death is being treated as an accident since there does not appear to be any evidence of
any sort of foul play involved in this case. For example, he had a well-documented history of narcotics abuse
and even spent a couple of years in the slammer on just such a charge. he was only 35 years old when he died.
He had many other legal problems, and also tried to commit suicide at one point.
Specifically, when he died had had the powerful painkiller Tramadol plus large quantities of cocaine in his system.
It was officially declared to be an accidental overdose by the New York City Medical Examiner’s Office
He had his own style, which was basically half-rapped, half-sung style. This style was quite unique.
Much like Flava Flav or Puff Daddy , he was also a huge proponent of bling bling jewelry, gold teeth and the like,
although I never saw him with the oversized watches or gold chains, diamond dog tags and other jewelry that some hip hop stars employed.