The owner of the Hatfield Creek winery reports theft of $ 13.5 in the jewelry-SAN Diego Union-Tribune

The deputies of the Sheriff Ramona are investigating a report by the Hatfield Creek Winery owners, that a total of about $ 13,500 in the jewelry were stolen from their home business last week.

Deputies also seek reports on “suspicious people” at two additional wineries in Ramona, said Lt. George Crysler, Sheriff Ramona.

The owners of Barrel 1 Winery and Correcaminos Vineyard and Winery say they had what they called “suspicious meetings” on the same evening, on Sunday, February 23, as the theft from Hatfield Creek. The three wineries are a few kilometers from each other – Hatfield Creek on the state route 78, Baril 1 on Magnolia Avenue and Correcaminos on Lilac Road.

“It was found that a theft had been produced in the connected residence of the Hatfield Creek winery,” Crysler wrote in a E -mail from March 3. “It was just a report of crime at the Hatfield Creek winery, because this is the only business in which a crime was determined. The investigation for all three businesses is in progress. “

He once took place between 2:30 and 5:30 pm, he said.

No suspects were identified, but the patrol deputies and the patrol staff of the volunteer sheriff were asked to carry out additional patrols around the Ramona wineries, Crysler said in his edition.

Elaine Lyttleton, co-owner Hatfield Creek, said he lost valuable and sentimental jewelry.

“I didn’t realize that a (burglar) took place until Monday morning,” Lyttleton said. “I have never seen anyone suspicious.”

Lyttleton, who lives in a house near the wine and terrace tasting room with the case of her husband Norm, said she is on the property of the wine in the afternoon of February 23.

Around 5:00 pm, she said she turned home and discovered that the front door was locked.

“I went to Norm’s store and asked if he locked the front door,” she recalled. “He said no. That should have warned me that there was something suspicious. I think they came to the front door and locked it behind them. “

On Monday morning, she said she discovered that most of her jewelry who were held in a drawer and a locking box in her bedroom was missing. It estimates the loss from 12,000 to $ 15,000.

Among the losses there was a ring given to her mother by her godfather in 1925. The ring brings back memories of her mother leaving England when she was a little girl who immigrated to Canada with her parents, said Lytleton.

“This was my wedding band that can never be replaced with anything,” she said about the ring.

Some of the missing jewelry were Lyttleton after her best friend died about 20 years ago, she said.

“When she died, her husband at her request, she offered me all her very fine jewelry and had some very fine things, so that disappeared,” Lytleton said.

Audrey Cassidy, co -owner Barrel 1 Winery, said she experienced “unusual activity” at her winery around 16 pm. February 23 and the sheriff’s deputies were contacted.

Cassidy said he had just parked the car in the garage and closed the garage door when he heard a door hit a few minutes later.

“So I answered the door and a man asked me where the tasting room is,” she said. “I headed for the tasting room.”

Cassidy described the two men at the door as about 5 meters high 8 centimeters and in the late 20s or in the early 30s.

She said she considered the suspicious incident, because there are signs showing where the tasting room is. She said the two visitors were removed from the tasting room and left the winery.

“They didn’t even get out of the car,” Cassidy said, describing it as a Mercedes-Benz with four older doors in class.

The third incident took place once in the late afternoon of February 23 at Correcremin Vineyard and Winery, said co-owner Sue Robinson.

Robinson said that she serves the guests on the wine-taste terrace, when her husband, Doug, entered the house to feed the two founders of Negru Labrador.

“There were two people in the living room,” said Robinson, who described them as young people who had a four-door black sedan. “But obviously, they just went in because nothing was missing.”

Robinson said that her dogs barking and scared the two intruders in the house as her husband looked to rush to their car.

Robinson said she was busy with guests, so he didn’t find out about the incident until Doug told him afterwards.

“Doug called the sheriff as soon as he entered the house,” she said. “The deputies were at our house in 10 minutes.”

Robinson, the president of the Valea Valea Ramona Valley (RVVA) association, said he sent an E -mail to the RVVA members who are wine owners on February 24 to warn about what happened at the wineries.

Crysler said the deputies discussed the options of the surveillance chamber with the owners of the three wineries.

“Any business owners should be aware of the entire property, especially when the business is connected to the residence,” Crysler wrote in his edition.

Cassidy said he wonders if it was a coincidence that two other nearby wineries have met at the same time.

“We were going to write it until we check with the other two wineries,” she said, adding that nothing was stolen from her property. “I have been looking for a retail business for many years.”

The owners of the three wineries said they intend to install security chambers on their properties.

“All my valuable objects have disappeared, so it’s like blocking the barn after the horse disappeared,” Lytleton said, noting that he has not experienced a crime since he moved to his property in 2006 and to open the tasting room in 2014.

To report a tip, call Ramona sheriff’s station at 760-789-9157 or the non-urgent line at 858-565-5200. Tips can also be reported to San Diego Crime Stoppers Online at sdccrimeoppers.org/anonymous-taps.

Originally published: March 4, 2025 at 16:01 PST