Corridor of Fame tennis participant Pam Shriver mentioned Friday that her main trophies have been returned earlier this week to the Marina Del Rey, California, lodge from the place they have been stolen earlier this month.
Household pictures additionally have been returned with the trophies, however the stolen automobile that was holding the trophies and pictures stays lacking.
Shriver and members of the family had fled to the lodge to flee the Pacific Palisades hearth in mid-January. The morning of Jan. 16, she found that her Dodge Durango Hellcat, which was holding 5 US Open trophies, 5 French Open plates, one Australian Open trophy and household pictures, was gone.
Then this week, the lodge supervisor referred to as her and mentioned employees discovered the trophies and pictures close to the lodge Monday morning. After receiving the decision, Shriver mentioned she notified police detectives, who picked up the trophies to fingerprint them. She then picked up her trophies from the police station Tuesday.
Police later found by safety digicam footage from a neighboring enterprise that somebody had returned the trophies from a automotive that Shriver mentioned “match, considerably, the outline” of her stolen Dodge Durango Hellcat.
She mentioned it is a reduction to have her trophies again.
“It wasn’t only a sentiment to me,” she mentioned. “The trophies truly maintain a fairly cheap worth as properly.”
Shriver mentioned she does not imagine the trophies have been meant to be stolen, simply the automotive.
“The trophies have been within the flawed place on the flawed time,” she mentioned. “For 10 days, they have been wherever they have been. I want my trophies might speak. I believe it will be actually fascinating to listen to from them.”
After phrase bought out about her stolen trophies, Shriver mentioned she felt supported by the tennis neighborhood worldwide and heard from folks from all through her tennis journey.
“I do assume getting a phrase out in regards to the trophies helped get them again,” she mentioned, including that she thinks the tennis neighborhood, together with the Corridor of Fame and different entities, networked to assist with the trophies’ return.
Shriver has returned to her Brentwood, California, residence. Regardless of her residence being unscathed, she described the hearth as “one of the impactful issues” she has skilled.
“It was actually a problem being type of head of family,” Shriver mentioned. “I am principally the decision-maker for my home and my children.”