Photo by Ryan Howard Brian Patterson hard at work in Diamond Find, his longtime jewelry business at The Plaza in Forest Lake.
In the early morning hours of Oct. 16, burglars forced their way into The Plaza building next to Lakeside Memorial Park. Scaling the stairs, they broke the lock on the door to longtime jeweler Diamond Find, pried open the display case, and grabbed as many pieces of jewelry as they could quickly get their hands on before dashing out of the building once again. In all, they grabbed about 300 to 400 pieces, costing the business, after insurance, about $54,000.
“They were in and out in less than a minute,” Diamond Find owner Brian Patterson said.broadstreet.zone(48036);
Now, the jeweler has launched a GoFundMe campaign in an attempt to stay open, as the burglary came around the same time as he learned that The Plaza owner Gaughan planned to use his current
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