Martina Navratilova has message for police after latest Pam Shriver update

Martina Navratilova congratulated the Los Angeles Police Division after 11 main tennis trophies belonging to fellow Worldwide Tennis Corridor of Famer, Pam Shriver, had been recovered. Shriver had saved half of her Grand Slam trophies in a Dodge Durango Hellcat, however the automobile was stolen as she evacuated her dwelling as a result of Los Angeles-area wildfires.

Shriver fled her Brentwood dwelling and was staying at a lodge whereas wildfires unfold via the Palisades area, however she turned a sufferer of housebreaking as the realm turned a goal for thieves. Shriver received 22 Grand Slam trophies throughout her embellished profession, and rose to fame alongside Navratilova, her doubles accomplice.

The previous tennis star had been storing 11 of her trophies within the Dodge, however reported that the automobile had been stolen to police. There have been additionally sentimental household pictures contained in the automobile, however though the automobile continues to be lacking, the police have recovered her prized possessions.

Shriver posted an replace to social media on Jan. 28, writing: “Excellent news on my trophies (& household pictures)- the LAPD detective answerable for the investigation has them on the police station being finger printed. It’s too lengthy a narrative for a submit. We nonetheless hope to seek out black Dodge Durango Hellcat in a single piece.”

Navratilova replied to the submit, including: “That’s simply superior!!!! Properly performed the Police!!!” An emotional Shriver then responded: “Thanks for calling accomplice. At present appears like we received one other main! Sure yea police. Now let’s see if automobile makes it dwelling.”

In an interview with ESPN, Shriver confirmed that 5 U.S. Open trophies, 5 Roland Garros plates and one Australian Open trophy had been stolen together with household pictures and her automobile. “I used to be simply beginning to take issues out to pack them within the automobile, and I used to be like, ‘The place’s the automobile?'” she instructed ESPN.

“It is actually unhappy on so many ranges that when persons are at their lowest and of their most troublesome instances, persons are doing issues like this,” Shriver added. Police have made lots of of arrests regarding housebreaking in the course of the wildfire tragedy, with CBS reporting that 30 folks have been charged.

The Palisades area was focused by criminals as 1000’s evacuated their houses. District Legal professional Nathan Hochman mentioned that these convicted of housebreaking “deserve the harshest penalties” doable in a press release launched via the LA County DA’s workplace.

“There’s a particular place in jail for many who exploit the susceptible within the wake of lethal fires,” Hochman mentioned within the assertion. “As lots of of 1000’s of households face the unimaginable anguish of fleeing their houses, unsure whether or not they’ll ever return, the very last thing they need to worry is the added trauma of criminals preying on their misfortune.”

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“Opportunistic burglars and looters who goal fireplace victims of their time of disaster will not be solely breaking the regulation — they’re additional deepening the struggling of these already dealing with unimaginable loss,” he mentioned, including that these convicted of looting crimes “deserve the harshest penalties” and “present legal guidelines merely don’t go far sufficient to make sure they’re held totally accountable.”

Shriver could not have been reunited together with her automobile, however the trophies she labored so onerous for at the moment are again in Brentwood. Shriver received seven Australian Open titles, 5 Wimbledon titles, 5 U.S. Open titles and 4 French Open titles.

As a doubles accomplice with Navratilova, the pair made historical past. To at the present time, they’re the one girls’s pair to finish the Grand Slam in a calendar yr, successful all 4 majors in 1984.