KIDNAPPED IN CALIFORNIA BIG NUGGET
Last Friday, two robbers entered the California Museum of minerals, located in Mariposa. Alarms are triggered only when they tried to take the central exhibit booth - a huge nugget `` Frikot weighing 6.35 kilograms. It is the only such major mineral mined during the gold rush, which was not melted.
According to one version, as an instrument of crime thieves used a pickaxe miners, who were also part of the museum.
A complete list of items and the exact value of the stolen is not yet known, but even pre-estimated loss of $ 2 million.
Although they expected the thieves, it is not clear - to sell the rare and famous exhibit is extremely difficult.
Recall that in February the attackers stole the gold nuggets on display in the courtroom Siskiyou County. Now police check a possible link between the two robberies.
