Rings stolen from hospitalized woman's finger

An elderly woman had her wedding and engagement rings stolen off of her finger as she lay ill in Riddle Memorial Hospital this month, state police said.

The woman, a 70-year-old Media resident, was a patient at the hospital on Oct. 3, when around 3 a.m. two women walked into her room and took her wedding and engagement rings - which were yellow-and-white gold with diamonds - from her left finger, police said.

It was not immediately clear from a state police report whether the victim was sleeping or incapacitated at the time of the theft.

The suspects remain unidentified and on the lam. Anyone with information on the case is urged to call state police in Media at 484-840-1000.

The how-low-can-you-go crime brings to mind a case from Northeast Philadelphia last year where three people were charged with stealing the watch off of Joanquin Rivera, 63, after he died in the waiting room of Aria Health's Frankford Hospital.