What Lies Beneath

The owner of a pizza parlor contacted JCSO to report suspicious items buried behind the restaurant. While relaxing in his vehicle at about 6 p.m., an employee saw a man and woman who appeared to be in their 30s park a light blue Chevrolet Blazer beside a hillside that bounds the ally behind the restaurant. The woman got out, buried something in the slope and the pair drove away. Using a stick, the shop’s owner disinterred the object which turned out to be a hollow piece of log containing a sealed tube about four inches long and one inch in diameter that was carefully wrapped in camouflage duct tape. The JCSO bomb squad was called to the scene and satisfied itself that no explosives were concealed within the tube. Opening the dubious treasure chest, a sheriff’s deputy found a pair of dice, a tablet with writing on it and a small hair clip. The items were booked into the evidence vault and the case was reburied.