UPDATED: Scarsdale Police Investigating Alleged Diamond Theft

UPDATE: For the latest on this story, check out Scarsdale Police: 'No Evidence' Of Wrongdoing By Jeweler In Alleged Missing Diamond Case on Scarsdale Patch.

An Ossining woman reported to the that she entrusted a jeweler with fixing a ring, only to find out the jewel she paid to have put in the ring was glass instead of a diamond.

According to the police report, the complainant had lost the original diamond from her grandmother's ring and chose Wilson and Son's Mount Kisco location to replace the missing stone.

After paying $9,406.05 for the replacement stone, the alleged victim wore it for a month before noticing the stone was shifting, according to the police.

On April 20, she brought the ring to the jeweler's Scarsdale location for inspection. The jeweler in Scarsdale told her the "stone was not a diamond but a piece of glass," the report stated.

The Ossining woman contacted her insurance company and filed a police report.

Police are taking a deposition from the owner. The alleged grand larceny, a felony, is currently under investigation by Scarsdale PD.

In an email to Patch on May 1, Anthony Pirrotti, Jr., a lawyer with Pirrotti Law Firm LLC, responded to the original version of the story:

"This law firm is retained by Wilson & Son Ltd, d/b/a Wilson & Son Jewelers. We were alerted to your posting, in the Scarsdale Patch.  You state in your article: “An Ossining woman entrusted a jeweler with her diamond ring, only to find out the jewel was replaced with glass, according to a report filed with the Police Department”. What you say is patently false. Your article has a direct meaning that the jeweler (my client), who was “entrusted” with the diamond ring, replaced the diamond with glass, which is absolutely false, outrageous and NOT what the Scarsdale Police Report states, nor is it the truth. It was Wilson & Son Jewelers that identified that the replacement in the ring was glass, as set forth in the Police Report, which was not the diamond that Wilson & Son Jewelers supplied and set in the customer’s mounting 12 weeks earlier.  For your further edification, attached is a photo of the diamond ring supplied to the customer on February 8, 2012 by Wilson & Son Jewelers and, on the bottom, is the ring that was brought in on April 20, 2012 with the misaligned glass replacement and bent prongs.

My client is the most highly respected Jeweler in Westchester County, if not the State, and is a business built on four generations of Wilson’s since 1905. In 2011, The Westchester County Business Association voted Wilson & Son Jewelers into the Westchester County Business Hall of Fame. A principle of Wilson & Son is the President of the NYS Jeweler’s Association and on the National Board of the American Gem Society. Additionally, Westchester Magazine voted Wilson & Son Jewelers the “best” jeweler in Westchester County by the readership for approximately 10 years. The Wilsons take their reputation extremely seriously and will not allow anyone to besmirch their good name."

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