WATCH: Imagine coming home from a long day at work to find your house had been broken into. As you survey the damage, you come to find out thieves stole the one thing you can never replace. Global’s Natasha Pace reports.
UPDATE: Good news! Tammy Poirier contacted Global News Friday evening to say her necklace had been found and returned to her.
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HALIFAX – A Halifax-area woman is asking for help to find a necklace that was stolen during a break and enter this week.
Thieves stole a number of things from Tammy Poirier’s home in Mineville, N.S., Monday while she was at work, including money, a laptop, golf clubs and a wedding ring.
But they also took a special necklace that contains the ashes of her father, who suddenly passed away less than two months ago.
“It took a couple minutes to realize that they took something so irreplaceable that I can’t get back,” Tammy told Global News.
“It was just a little something that she felt was part of him that was with her all the time,” said Tammy’s husband, Jodi. “The other stuff that we had stolen, it was a lot, but that stuff I can purchase back again. But it was the sentimental value of this little locket that means the most.”
The RCMP were notified and are investigating the break and enter. They call the theft “unusual.”
“I have never heard of such a case, obviously there’s a possibility the culprits took it not realizing what it contained,” said Sgt. Al LeBlanc.
Tammy and her husband are now looking at local pawn shops to see if the necklace shows up.
She has posted a photo of the locket on Facebook with the hopes it may generate some leads.
“There’s people that I don’t even know that are actually writing me and saying that they’ve shared it,” Tammy said.
Police are asking anyone with any information about the break and enter or the theft of the necklace to come forward.
“This is something that is very personal to the victim. If you have any information about this, please contact police or Crimestoppers,” said LeBlanc.
Tammy is making a plea to whoever took her necklace to give it back.
“Just please, please, return the necklace. It’s not even about the necklace, it’s what the necklace has. To me, somebody has my father’s ashes and it’s disturbing….and they don’t even know what it means to me.”
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