Armchair Sleuths Wanted to assist Detectives identify loot recovered in Shoreline

Jewelry recovered in a Shoreline investigation

By Sgt. John Urquhart

The Sheriff's Office is looking or an armchair sleuth (or sleuths!) to assist detectives in finding the high school depicted on a stolen ring with the hope that will lead them to the owner. The ring was recently recovered in the course of a burglary and stolen property investigation.

The distinctive ring is a 1977 AAA football championship ring. It is marked “DHS” for the high school and has a devil figure as a mascot. The initials “ELP” are engraved on the inside of the ring.

The ring is from a high school from outside Washington, as Burlington-Edison H.S. was the 1977 AAA football champs.

The ring was recovered as part of a larger investigation of several burglaries in the Shoreline area. At least some of the loot from these burglaries was sold to a gold buyer on CraigsList. Additional jewelry was recovered as shown in the photo. Some of jewelry, including the ring, has not been linked to a particular burglary.

Keith Blair, age 34 of Bothell is a suspect in some of the Shoreline burglaries. He was arrested and charged, but is out of jail on $250,000 bail. His girl friend, Kelsey Johnson, age 22 of Edmonds, was charged with Possession of Stolen Property from other burglaries. She is out on bail as well.

If anybody has any ideas, or recognizes any of the other jewelry, they are asked to call the King County Sheriff's Office at 206-296-3311 (24 hours).