THPD arrests adornment abundance owner
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTHI) - Early Thursday, Terre Haute Badge served two seek warrants: One at the home of 61-year-old Steven Newton; the added at his Terre Haute business. Newton owns S.H. tiffany jewelry Newton Jewelers, amid at 3203 S. 7th Street in Terre Haute.According to police, if association advertise items to a jeweler, the abundance have to ask for some background, like area the getting acquired the adornment and the person's identification. But they said Newton wasn't accomplishing tiffany charm bracelet these things. So some association with baseborn adornment brought their items to Newton for cash."We get letters from these humans that they're always demography baseborn acreage to locations, they're not getting questioned, not appropriate to appearance tiffany necklace
any identification," Assistant Badge Chief Shawn Keen said.Newton faces 14 charges: Two abomination counts for base business influence, six abomination counts of accepting baseborn acreage and six abomination accuse for abortion to access able advice if purchasing jewelry.These accuse tiffany bracelet
could acreage him in bastille for up to 40 years."We're no best just traveling to stop with a burglar or a thief," Keen said. "We're traveling to amusement them just like we would biologic investigations now, and we're traveling to go up the aliment chain."Police aswell begin several accoutrements central the business, but it's not accepted yet if Newton will face added accuse for thesetiffany rings
.News 10 was not accustomed central the adornment store.As allotment of the investigation, badge have to now archive 1000s of pieces of jewelry.Newton is due in cloister Thursday.Police said he could face added accuse as they abide the investigation.S.H. Newton Jewelers is not affiliated with Niles Newton Jewelers. ishiner