A detective searched Buffalo pawn shops until he found her ring

A police detective in LeRoy, New York, spent months tracking down a wedding ring stolen from a nursing home resident with dementia, finally locating it in a Buffalo pawn shop. The victim, who could not speak or care for herself, had the ring taken from her hand. Her family noticed it was missing and reported it to the LeRoy Police Department. Detective Kaden Vangalio ran interviews and database checks that led nowhere. So he drove to Buffalo and went pawn shop to pawn shop himself, looking for one ring in a city full of them. He found it, along with a bill of sale signed by the suspect, a nursing home worker now charged with larceny. "This may not be the crime of the century, but you cannot put a price on the sentimental value of a wedding ring," the department wrote. The suspect avoided contact for months, then turned herself in.