Thousands in coins burglarized from Sedona home1 min read

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Christopher Fox Graham
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A list of the stolen property includes 7,000 1-ounce 2011 American Silver Eagles Coins in plastic sleeves, 12 bags of 1920-1963 Silver Coins at 5¢, 10¢, and 25¢, 15 South African Krugerands, 20 10-pound bars of silver, 20 5-pound bars of silver, 30 American Gold Eagles with Canadian Maple Leaves, 10-ounce and 6-ounce bars of silver with Johnson Matthey and Engelhard stamps and $80,000 cash in bank envelopes.
Images courtesy of the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office

Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office deputies are investigating a home burglary in the Sedona area that netted thieves thousands of silver coins, bars of silver, gold coins and $80,000 in cash.

On Dec. 9, just before 8 p.m., YCSO deputies were called to the 11500 block of Boynton Pass Road northwest of Sedona regarding a burglary.

A storage room door had been pried open and gold and silver pieces valued in the thousands were gone, according to Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Dwight D’Evelyn.

YCSO is seeking anyone with information on this burglary to contact Detective John Johnson at (928) 554-8575 or Yavapai Silent Witness at (800-932) 3232.

Christopher Fox Graham

Christopher Fox Graham is the managing editor of the Sedona Rock Rock News, The Camp Verde Journal and the Cottonwood Journal Extra. Hired by Larson Newspapers as a copy editor in 2004, he became assistant manager editor in October 2009 and managing editor in August 2013. Graham has won awards for editorials, investigative news reporting, headline writing, page design and community service from the Arizona Newspapers Association. Graham has also been a guest contributor in Editor & Publisher magazine and featured in the LA Times, New York Post and San Francisco Chronicle. He lectures on journalism, media law and the First Amendment and is a nationally recognized performance aka slam poet. In January 2025, the International Astronomical Union formally named asteroid 29722 Chrisgraham (1999 AQ23) in his honor at the behest of Lowell Observatory, citing him as "an American journalist and longtime managing editor of Sedona Red Rock News. He is a nationally-recognized slam poet who has written and performed multiple poems about Pluto and other space themes."

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