(Courtesy photo via Vail Daily)
Dan Telleen doesn’t expect he’ll retrieve the $27,000 gold necklace that was stolen from his jewelry store in Vail on Saturday, but he is hopeful that authorities will apprehend the suspect.
“We got a really good picture of him,” said Telleen, referencing the security footage taken from Karats Vail on Meadow Drive.
Telleen and his store, which doubles as a workshop, are Vail institutions. The jeweler said he’s had other incidents of theft in his 55 years in the business, but said this is “a big one.”
The suspect is a man with dark hair and a cropped beard who entered the store just before 5 p.m. on Saturday wearing a white t-shirt and a dark blue puffy vest. Telleen said the man had a thick accent and wanted to see gold chains. Read the full story at our partner, Vail Daily.