Crime & Safety

Woman Says She Lost $34,750 Wedding Ring

She tells police it might have been lost at Wirth Park; meanwhile a man reports losing his $300 wedding band.

Ah, the inequities of the genders.

This week's police reports showed two complaints of lost wedding rings: a man's worth $300 and a woman's worth $34,750.

While that may an extreme comparison, the pair of lost rings are the third and fourth to reported missing in Brookfield in the past six weeks:

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  • On Tuesday, a Waukesha man, 45, told Brookfield police that he dropped his $300 wedding ring on the floor and forgot to pick it back up before leaving an engineering office at 155 S. Executive Drive. 
  • The day before, a Mequon woman, 43, told Brookfield police that she might have lost her $34,750, three-carat wedding ring while at for a baseball tournament June 19.  The woman said she was retracing her steps from that Sunday and calling other places she visited, such as Qdoba.
  • On June 5, a Milwaukee woman said while shopping at  and  at Brookfield Square mall. She said it was appraised at $2,840 in 1998.
  • And on May 13, a Wauwatosa woman told Brookfield police she in the parking lot at . 


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