The case of the missing wrestling belt is closed — perhaps.
The Tallahassee Police Department announced in a Facebook post Wednesday that they had found Chris Jericho’s stolen AEW championship belt, but then the post was deleted. According to the Tallahassee Democrat, the department said the investigation into the missing belt was “open and active” after the post — which featured a photo of someone holding the belt — was yanked.
The fledgling wrestling promotion acknowledged the deleted post by posting a screenshot with the tweet, “Case solved .. thank you @TallyPD.” They would go on to delete their own post.
The Tallahassee police had confirmed to outlets Tuesday that the championship belt, which Jericho won on Saturday at AEW’s “All Out” show in Chicago, was stolen. The Democrat notes a police report says the belt was taken at approximately 5:30 p.m. Sunday and was reported stolen about two hours later. A Longhorn Steakhouse is the “location of occurrence.”
According to a version of the police report that leaked online Tuesday, Jericho had placed the belt in a rented limo and went to the chain restaurant to eat.
“The limo driver shuttled the victim to Longhorn for dinner. The victim remained at Longhorn while the limo driver returned to the airport,” the report said. “The victim had taken the wrong luggage from the airport and the driver took it back to the terminal. When the driver picked up the victim from the restaurant, the belt was missing. Responding officers searched the limo and airport for the belt without success. On-call CID was consulted, and forensics responded to the scene.”
Because this is pro wrestling, AEW and Jericho tried to capitalize on their misfortune and turn it into a storyline. Jericho posted a video on Instagram of him wearing a hat and scarf in a hot tub while sipping champagne.
“Some lowlife scumbag committed grand larceny and robbed me of the AEW championship,” said Jericho, who added he was launching “a worldwide investigation using the top private investigators in the world today to find out who committed this crime.”
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