Caryleena Adam is hoping to recover her wedding ring, stolen in a break-in in the East Flat area Friday night. (Submitted/Caryleena Adam)

By Susan McNeil

Theft spree

Unique wedding ring stolen in weekend theft spree

Dec 6, 2022 | 10:35 AM

A resident of the East Flat area is hoping to find her wedding ring that was stolen from her kitchen island Friday night.

When Caryleena Adam woke up on Saturday morning, her house on Fifth Street East felt draftier than normal and when she went to check it out, she found more than an open window.

“It was very cold coming from downstairs so I walked upstairs and notice my back door was wide open,” Adam said.

A thief came into the home while the family slept in the bedrooms in the basement and took Adam’s unique wedding ring, some identification and a pair of Hillberg and Berk earrings.

The theft didn’t stop there as Adam’s vehicle was ransacked. Other properties in the area were targeted.

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Adam said whoever entered her home was very quiet and stealthy.

“We didn’t hear anything. We were sleeping,” Adam said. “Along my street, they smashed windows on at least five cars.”

The thieves even tried stealing the can for cigarette butts that is chained to the stairs on the business across the street.

“They couldn’t take the can, so they just emptied it and tried getting into the garage as well,” Adam said.

She said she can work to replace the earrings but nothing can replace the missing wedding ring and what it means to her.

“It’s really sentimental and it’s not your typical wedding band. It just bothers me. I feel sick. I can replace it, yeah that’s cool but it’s not going to be the same. It’s not my ring,” Adam said.

With money short when the couple got engaged, her husband decided to do something special for the wedding ring.

“I’m not a big diamond lady and my husband and I didn’t have a lot of money when we got engaged. So my husband thought, I’m going to get her the ring she deserves for her wedding band,” she said.

The ring has two small diamonds and larger sapphire in it.

Adam has reported the crime to Prince Albert Police, notified local pawn shops of the missing ring and has been posting on social media hoping to find any sign of the jewelry.

She is at the point where she doesn’t care anymore about catching the thief so much as having her ring returned to her.

Several weeks ago, there was some suspicious activity in the neighbourhood, which she said was reported to police.

They caught a man looking in the neighbour’s window who then walked over and looked in their windows.

“My husband caught him. He went out and asked him, ‘What are you doing?’ He just stared him down and then walked away like nothing happened,” she said.

The boldness of the stranger looking in windows combined with the fact that no one heard anything as the thefts were happening has left Adam with some frayed nerves.

“I’m so uncomfortable. I haven’t felt safe at home for at least a month,” she said.

In one of the other thefts, one window had a small hole in it but was not broken. The thieves broke another window instead.

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susan.mcneil@pattisonmedia.com