Earlier in the week the celebrity gossip website, TMZ.com broke a news story where apparently two men, 33-year-old Joel Luke and 39-year-old Forrest Jamison, stole the TNA World Heavyweight Championship and a replica belt from the backstage area of a TNA house show in Ottumwa, Iowa on August 18th. The TNA Title, worth reportedly $6,000, and the replica were stolen off of a truck while a stagehand unloaded other equipment. Security cameras from the venue helped local authorities track down the suspects. The belts have since been returned to TNA.
The theft was kept very quiet within TNA, with many people inside the company’s inner circle unaware of the situation until the belts were recovered and returned.
Below are Luke, who was charged with 2nd-degree theft and Jamison was charged with accessory, courtesy of TMZ.com.
