Hope Mrs. Frog and Mr. Shotgun were watching the back door while all that palaver was going on.... you know "they" like to do that. Someone made that play not too long ago in my neighborhood. I know of a case when a neighborhood couple who were gardening were victimized by a criminal working for Asplundh (tree trimmers) on contract to the power company, cutting limbs in the utility right-of-way. Guy deliberately dropped a limb in their back yard then asked permission to retrieve it. They gave it, and he was in their back door in a flash and got the Mrs.'s good jewelry from the upstairs master BR, about $25,000 worth.
Cops were totally discouraging, told them to call their insurance company.
As one cop put it, if the guy gets around the corner with your property, it's his now as far as the State is concerned. You'll never get it back unless you had it appraised, photographed, and the stones "fingerprinted" by professionals. But you'll never see them again; they'll be fenced in China or the Middle East.