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Sep 24, 2008 11:06 am US/Central

Police: Thief Took $63,000 From RNC Delegate

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ― Minneapolis police are lowering their estimate of the value of goods stolen from an delegate to the Republican National Convention earlier this month.
  
A police spokesman says the officer who wrote the initial report placed the value of the stolen property at $120,000, but a later inventory put its value at $63,050.
  
After the media reported the higer figure, Denver lawyer Gabriel N. Schwartz said that only $50,000 worth of his property was stolen from his room.
  
The 29-year-old Schwartz, who is single, was a Colorado delegate to the RNC. He says he met a woman in the hotel bar and they want back to his room.
  
She made him a drink and that's the last thing he remembers. He believes he was drugged.
  
Among the stolen goods was a $30,000 Vacheron Constantin watch and a $20,000 platinum ring with a blue and white diamond.
  
Schwartz spokeswoman Christine Burtt says the attorney believes the discrepency came from a communication problem with the officer who took the report.

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The Republican National Convention was held at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul from Sept. 1 through Sept. 4, 2008.


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