This short item in the Oregonian describes a thief who stole a $100,000 diamond from downtown Portland’s Margulis Jewelers. His method? He “asked to hold it.”

And then he ran off.

So you’ve got a stuffed donut thief apprehended by a mob of Portland’s Finest, but a guy with a hundred-thousand-dollar diamond clutched in his fist runs free down SW Broadway.

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