BROADALBIN N.Y. (NEWS10) –on June 19th, a Saturday, a hotel in Broadalbin has experienced a unique crime that left most shocked when they heard of it. The alleged suspect took a Tiffany Lamp right out of the lobby of the Historic Hotel Broadalbin in the middle of the day during working hours.
It’s not every day someone comes in and steals a 5 foot tall, heavy, colorful, lamp. The owners are very shocked and disappointed and all they want is for the lamp to be returned. No questions asked.
It all felt like a normal day at the hotel until co-owner Zoe Thompson was asking her husband David Thompson if he had moved the couch away from the wall in the lobby. David says no and after a while David moves the couch back and sees the lamp is missing. The question David is wondering is: Why even steal it?
“How did someone feel so entitled to walk into a public building and take what he wanted and then just exit and leave?,” said David. “There were customers, and we were open for business. We had customers coming in and out. He wasn’t a customer that day.”
This unique crime not only had the owners, but also others in the community shocked as to how the suspect pulled it off. Thats when about three days after the owners filed their complaint with the Sheriff’s Department, the church nearby security footage came to light and caught the suspect going in the hotel and taking the lamp and putting it in his truck so naturally.
“He just pulled up, got out of his truck, walked into the lobby, came out with the lamp,” David said. “He walked out the front door, put it in the back of his truck and backed up and left.”
According to Fulton County Sheriff, Richard Giardino, the thief’s name is Charles Lovejoy from the Town of Providence and is charged with several crimes. The lamp, however, is still not returned. Owners tell me they heard word that Lovejoy said they didn’t deserve to have it.
An odd statement the two had thought. They don’t know if Lovejoy still has it or sold it at this time. The owners do not know how much the lamp is worth, but it’s the sentimental value to them that mattered most.
“We’ve had the lamp I can say at least ten years. It was actually given to us as a gift. Friends of ours were moving out of their home and into a smaller house, and they actually had three Tiffany lamps, and they said, we would love for you to have those,” said Zoe.
David and Zoe had tons of historical items in their hotel, but that one meant a lot to them along with many others. If you know anything about where this lamp is, please contact the Fulton County Sheriff’s Department or the Historic Hotel Broadalbin.
May the hunt continue!
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