A woman has been reunited with her lost engagement ring — all thanks to a New Hampshire officer who went out of his way to find it on the beach.
Animal Control Officer Bob McGrath was patrolling Cable Beach in Rye on Saturday when he encountered a woman named Olivia Ireland, who was metal detecting along the sand, according to a Facebook post from the Rye Police Department.
"I saw the lady near the water with a metal detector, on a busy, busy beach day and thought it was a little odd," McGrath explained to The Portsmouth Herald. "Being a person who used metal detectors for most of my life, I went and asked if she was having any luck."
Through his conversation with Ireland, McGrath learned that she was attempting to find her lost engagement ring, which recently fell off her hand in the water, the Facebook post stated.
According to police, Ireland said the ring had been given to her by her fiancé just one month earlier and she was "trying desperately to find it."
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