Editor's note: This is another report in an occasional series on unusual events or people found by The Bee's police reporters and editors.
Bee Staff:
A Sacramento area jeweler showed some solid-gold smarts when he helped snare two credit-card theft suspects, investigators say.
On July 10, one of the suspects entered a jewelry store in the 2600 block of Marconi Avenue and asked the jeweler if he could make a purchase with a credit card that belonged to a dead person, who didn't share his last name. The suspect showed the jeweler the card and the driver's license of the deceased, an 80-year-old man, according to a Sacramento County Sheriff's Department report.
The jeweler put the suspect off by saying he couldn't make the transaction that day but could help him the next day.
The jeweler than contacted the Sheriff's Department, who arranged to have a plainclothes sergeant in the store the next day.
The suspect - identified as Radmehr Nejad - returned the next day, selected about $2,200 worth of jewelry and presented the dead man's credit card to pay. Instead, the suspect got an additional piece of jewelry in the form of the sergeant's handcuffs, the report states.
A second suspect - identified as Rechard Waydd - was arrested outside the store. The second suspect was on searchable probation and a search of his residence turned up a the dead man's driver's license, Social Security card, a second credit card belong to the dead man along with identification documents belonging to other people, the report states.
Nejad, 34, and Waydd, 38, were booked into jail on suspicion of theft and other charges, the report states.
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