When authorities began searching for Tom Brady’s missing game-worn jersey from Super Bowl LI, Von Miller probably didn’t realize the investigation would lead to him having a valuable possession of his own returned. Sometimes things just have a way of working themselves out.
Mauricio Ortega, the former Mexican newspaper director who has been accused of stealing two of Brady’s Super Bowl jerseys, is allegedly the same person who took Miller’s helmet after Super Bowl 50. On Tuesday, Jay Glazer of FOX Sports reported that Miller’s shell and Brady’s jerseys were on their way to be authenticated so they can be returned to their rightful owners.
DEVELOPING: Tom Brady's jerseys have arrived at a Boston-area FBI facility.
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“Von Miller’s helmet is going to be transported as early as (Tuesday) — if it already hasn’t been — to the FBI office in the Denver area for them to authenticate it,” Glazer said on Fox Sports 1.
What originally appeared to be the case of a brazen thief who wanted Brady’s jersey after the New England Patriots’ incredible comeback against the Atlanta Falcons was actually only a piece of an elaborate scheme. Ortega was a credentialed member of the media, and one report claims he has been selling sports memorabilia items for years.
Miller probably didn’t consider the possibility that his helmet was in the same place as Brady’s jersey, but it would appear the same man who walked into the Patriots’ locker room after Super Bowl LI (video here) was also in the Denver Broncos’ locker room a year prior.
