[meteorite-list] Urgent Attention: Major Meteorite Collectionstollen !!!!

From: Don Merchant <dmerchan_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 01:05:30 -0500
Message-ID: <000601ce1ee7$9a324ef0$6401a8c0_at_donaldmerchant>

Holy Smokes!!! Looking over the list of stolen meteorites, many of those
individual pieces are worth 5X more then my collection of 12 years!!! There
has to be several hundred thousand dollars or more lost/stolen on this! How
in the name of Mary did anyone get away with all that inventory!? I am
speechless, thankful I only have to type. Where was the security, laser
alarms and Uzzi! I am very sorry to see and hear this. This is incredible.
Hopefully this will help create better measures on security because this
boggles my mind!

Sincerely
Don Merchant
Founder-Cosmic Treasures Celestial Wonders
www.ctreasurescwonders.com
IMCA #0960

----- Original Message -----
From: "The Earth's Memory" <info at meteorite.fr>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Cc: <imca at imcamail.de>
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 6:35 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Urgent Attention: Major Meteorite
Collectionstollen !!!!


> Dear list Members,
>
> it is with consternation that we annouce you that we have been
> victims of extortion at the beginning of the Tucson show
> and finaly totaly robbed at the end of the Tucson show.
>
> Fortunatly the criminals have been iddentified and one have admited
> that he has the material. For security and procedure raison we will not
> disclose their names at that time nor the circumstances, we can just tell
> you that two are Americans and one is Morrocan.
>
> We and the Police have enough evidences and witnesses, that will lead the
> criminal team to be
> punished by the full power of the Law.
>
> We offered them to give back the material and we would not press charges,
> but it seems that they are not cooperating.
> The French Police will involve FBI and INTERPOL in the next days as they
> don't return our inventory intact and at no cost NOW.
>
> Here is a rapid list of what have been stolen and extorqued:
> http://www.meteorite.fr/en/stolen.htm
>
> this list is still partial as we are working on it, there are many fossils
> too.
>
> Many of you know that these specimens are our and saw them in our room or
> on our web site for years,
> please have a close look on that list, some specimens might be already for
> sell somewhere.
>
> We ask any Dealer, Collector or Curator to be very carefull.
>
> If you have been proposed any suspicious specimens, please report it to us
> or Eric Twelker off list.
>
> Any help would be very much appreciated.
>
> Best from France,
>
> Bruno & Carine
> La Memoire de la Terre
> The Earth's Memory
> France
> www.meteorite.fr
>
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