A Main Line resident is out more than $100,000 after someone stole her nationally-recognized antique button collection recently.
That resident, Sara Dreisbach, 86, believes she knows who stole her collection -- and also believes she helped with his getaway.
Police are looking for Dreisbach's long-time assistant Humberto Velasquez in connection with the heist. Velasquez is accused of swiping the best of the victim's collection while helping her move and then posting them on eBay to sell.
"He took the best of the collection," said the victim's daughter Holly Perry. "So she has a lot of buttons still, but the best of the buttons are gone."
Another button collector, who knew well of Dreisbach's collection and signature "selling style" alerted her to the theft. Velsaquez's name was listed as the return address on the eBay auction, said police.
"He knew that this collection was for my retirement and that I was not ever to sell it and he took it anyway," said Dreisbach.
Perhaps the biggest kick in the stomach for the victim, she may have added in his getaway when she bought him a ticket to his native Nicaragua for the holidays.
The victim and her family estimate the stolen collection was worth nearly $125,000.
