Corridor of Fame tennis participant Pam Shriver stated Friday that her main trophies had been returned earlier this week to the Marina Del Rey, California, lodge from the place they had been stolen earlier this month.
Household pictures additionally had been returned with the trophies, however the stolen automobile that was holding the trophies and pictures stays lacking.
Shriver and relations had fled to the lodge to flee the Pacific Palisades hearth in mid-January. The morning of Jan. 16, she found that her Dodge Durango Hellcat, which was holding 5 US Open trophies, 5 French Open plates, one Australian Open trophy and household pictures, was gone.
Then this week, the lodge supervisor known as her and stated workers discovered the trophies and pictures close to the lodge Monday morning. After receiving the decision, Shriver stated she notified police detectives, who picked up the trophies to fingerprint them. She then picked up her trophies from the police station Tuesday.
Police later found by means of safety digital camera footage from a neighboring enterprise that somebody had returned the trophies from a automobile that Shriver stated “match, considerably, the outline” of her stolen Dodge Durango Hellcat.
She stated it is a reduction to have her trophies again.
“It wasn’t only a sentiment to me,” she stated. “The trophies truly maintain a fairly affordable worth as properly.”
Shriver stated she would not consider the trophies had been meant to be stolen, simply the automobile.
“The trophies had been within the improper place on the improper time,” she stated. “For 10 days, they had been wherever they had been. I want my trophies might speak. I feel it might be actually attention-grabbing to listen to from them.”
After phrase acquired out about her stolen trophies, Shriver stated she felt supported by the tennis group worldwide and heard from individuals from all through her tennis journey.
“I do suppose getting a phrase out in regards to the trophies helped get them again,” she stated, including that she thinks the tennis group, together with the Corridor of Fame and different entities, networked to assist with the trophies’ return.
Shriver has returned to her Brentwood, California, house. Regardless of her house being unscathed, she described the hearth as “one of the vital impactful issues” she has skilled.
“It was actually a problem being kind of head of family,” Shriver stated. “I am principally the decision-maker for my home and my youngsters.”
