Boy cracks open robbery cold case

A 6-YEAR-OLD boy helped crack a nearly decade-old robbery case when he reeled in a locked safe from the bottom of a South Carolina, US, lake.

Knox Brewer took up “magnet fishing” and began hunting for metal objects under water as a way to pass time during the coronavirus pandemic, his family told WCIV-TV this week.

The boy was at Whitney Lake this month when the magnet attached to his line stuck to something heavy in the mud below. Knox pulled in and pried open what turned out to be a lockbox containing jewellery and credit cards, as well as a cheque book.

Police determined the sunken safe belonged to a woman who lived across the street from the lake. She said it had been stolen from her home eight years ago. While most of the expensive items had been taken, the woman was reunited with charms from an old bracelet. | AP