Social worker steals rings from dead body www.privateofficer.com
Posted by privateofficernews on May 15, 2008
Social worker steals jewelry from dead body www.privateofficer.com
ATLANTA GA. May 15 2008 A warrant is out for the arrest of a Grady Hospital social worker in the theft of a set of rings from a young woman who died in the emergency room at Grady Memorial Hospital.
Police have said that they have surveillance tape showing Tacoma Jawara, 54, with a property bag. Officials arranged for him to surrender in the case Wednesday but he did not. They are looking for him right now.
Katherine Armstrong, 35, died after she was involved in a car accident on I-85 near Flat Shoals Road. Her husband said records showed Armstrong was wearing her engagement and wedding rings in the emergency room but after that they disappeared.
“Either some staffer stole those rings from a woman who just died in that room, or perhaps they were so negligent in the care of personal belongings that someone else just wandered in,” said her husband, Alan Armstrong.
Alan Armstrong said Katherine had designed the rings herself and there were no others like them.
Atlanta police investigated and said early Wednesday they had identified a suspect. When officers went to Grady Wednesday to make an arrest the suspect had called in sick.
Officials said Jawara was the social worker working with Alan Armstrong.
The rings have not been recovered. Authorities said Jawara has said he does not have the rings. Jawara’s daughter has called police and said he had a family emergency and had to move from his Buckhead apartment.
Police have said that they have surveillance tape showing Tacoma Jawara, 54, with a property bag. Officials arranged for him to surrender in the case Wednesday but he did not. They are looking for him right now.
Katherine Armstrong, 35, died after she was involved in a car accident on I-85 near Flat Shoals Road. Her husband said records showed Armstrong was wearing her engagement and wedding rings in the emergency room but after that they disappeared.
“Either some staffer stole those rings from a woman who just died in that room, or perhaps they were so negligent in the care of personal belongings that someone else just wandered in,” said her husband, Alan Armstrong.
Alan Armstrong said Katherine had designed the rings herself and there were no others like them.
Atlanta police investigated and said early Wednesday they had identified a suspect. When officers went to Grady Wednesday to make an arrest the suspect had called in sick.
Officials said Jawara was the social worker working with Alan Armstrong.
The rings have not been recovered. Authorities said Jawara has said he does not have the rings. Jawara’s daughter has called police and said he had a family emergency and had to move from his Buckhead apartment.
At this point, it looks as though he has chosen to run, an officer said.
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