Announcing the award in February, Díaz lauded the Virgin and her congregation for "maintaining a close collaboration with police, particularly during the acts celebrated in Holy Week, and for sharing police values such as dedication, caring, solidarity and sacrifice".
Police valued the haul at $300,000.
Hewitt concedes that such raids can be gimmicks with little inherent police value.
Specialist Hernandez said that the same military service the police value in potential recruits should justify a waiver in his case.
While the police valued the five bronzes the men tried to sell to Mr. Shay at $500,000, Mr. Shay said they were worth a total of $100,000 to $150,000.
Moments before the doorbell rang, he spoke with a colleague in London who suggested that the sculptures could have been among more than 100 works, which the police valued at more than $5 million, stolen from the Paris gallery.
The pastor thinks the police value the work he and others are doing.
If you're caught with a gram of coke, these guidelines would split that gram into lines, then value each line at the highest price possible essentially the equivalent of buying a $15 bottle of Scotch and the police valuing each individual nip at $10.
If you're caught with a gram of coke, these guidelines would split that gram into lines, then value each line at the highest price possible – essentially the equivalent of buying a £10 bottle of Scotch and the police valuing each individual nip at £7.
"It's certainly ironic that the case involves the NASD, which is charged with policing those values in others".
