Authorities Southern CaliforniaThree Olympic medals belonging the U.S. women’s soccer team were stolen in a home break-in last week. It was the second incident where a team member had their medal stolen this year.
According to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department a Laguna Hills home was broken into in the evening of October 29th. The medals were being temporarily stored there.
The medals – a gold, silver and bronze – belong to a member of the 2012, 2016 and 2020 U.S. women’s volleyball teams. They were inside a safe that had been taken. The gold medal was won by the volleyball team at the Tokyo Games, but it was delayed for a year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The 2012 London Olympics won the silver medal, while the Rio de Janeiro games in 2016 captured the bronze.
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Authorities said that three Olympic medals were taken from a California residence last month.
(Orange County Sheriff’s Department).
Authorities have yet to identify who the medals belonged. Fox News Digital reached out to the sheriff’s office.
Investigators have yet to identify a suspect in this case.
An earlier version of this year, Jordyn Puulter received a medal from the Anaheim barbershop owners. The Olympian Report it stolenOn May 25, she found her car had been broken into in a Anaheim parking lot.
It was found in a bag outside the barbershop and the owners handed it to police.
According to police, the suspect in the case is 31 years old and has a “long criminal history.”
Jordyn poulter during the Volleyball Italian Serie A1 Women’s match Unet E-Work Busto Arsizio vs Megabox Vallefoglia, January 16, 2022 at E-Work Arena in Busto Arsizio, Italy.
(Photo by Mattia Martegani/LiveMedia/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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Poulter was part a team that won Tokyo Olympics gold.
This report was compiled by the Associated Press.
