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$1,400 Settlement for Lost Property

Loaded on July 15, 2009

Filed under: Money/Property, Prisoner Property. Location: Washington.

Washington State’s King County Jail paid $1,400 to settle the lost property claim of Robert B. Mitchell, who was arrested on January 30, 2007. When he was released after a few hours, missing from his property were a wedding ring with three diamonds and an Egyptian man’s gold ring.

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