An Anaheim man was arrested and charged with stealing a USA Girl’s Volleyball participant’s gold medal final month, authorities stated.
Jordyn Poulter reported her automobile, the place she saved the gold medal, had been burglarized whereas parked in her storage on East Lincoln Avenue in Anaheim on Could 25. Different objects have been taken, together with her passport, however her 2020 Tokyo Olympics gold medal was essentially the most worthwhile.
Poulter was the workforce’s beginning setter in Tokyo final 12 months.
Jordan Fernandez, 31, was arrested by Anaheim Police on suspicion of theft. His case was introduced to the Orange County District Lawyer’s Workplace, which filed fees towards him on Tuesday, June 7, for first-degree residential housebreaking, second-degree automobile housebreaking, felony id theft and felony possession of narcotics, Anaheim police stated in a information launch.
They didn't say what led them to arrest Fernandez.
The medal, nonetheless, was not recovered. Poulter is providing a $1,000 reward for its protected return.