For the jeweler, the loss wasn’t financial, but rather an emotional blow to an ever-trusting businessman.

BELLEVUE, Wash. — It sounds like something out of a blockbuster movie: a jewelry heist, stolen valor and a missing $100,000 diamond.

While working for Diamonds Inc. in Bellevue this past February, master jeweler Kianoush Fanaeian remembers helping a customer.

“People getting engaged… happiness comes into this business. I am happy to do this job,” he said.

The man he was helping told Fanaeian he was a soldier shopping for an engagement ring, a story that struck a chord with Faneian.

“Actually (his) army clothes made me more comfortable to work with him, he seems like a good guy,” Fanaeian recalled.

Moments later, the customer snatched a 5.5-carat marquise-cut diamond. Fanaeian ran after him.

“At that time, I chased him. I don’t think about my insurance because I don’t like these types of people coming around me. That’s not right-- people thinking like that, living like that.”

Bellevue Police took the case from there and in April, the man caught on surveillance video was arrested in Vancouver, Washington.

The diamond-thief suspect was not a military veteran, but rather a 26-year-old man later identified as Arquae Kennedy. Kennedy is in jail, but at the time of this arrest, the diamond was nowhere to be found.

That changed this week when a captain with the Los Angeles Police Department tweeted that their Commercial Crimes Division had recovered a stolen diamond.

For Fanaeian, the loss wasn’t financial. His insurance covered the theft, but it felt like an emotional blow to an ever-trusting jeweler.

“One person cannot kill my trust no, no,” Fanaeian said.