Well, someone was going to have a Merry Christmas,

A custom-made $42,000 diamond ring intended as a Christmas present has disappeared from a Hoover jewelry store, according to a police report released Wednesday.

Dr. Clement Cotter Jr., a Hoover resident who has a plastic surgery practice in Alabaster, told Hoover police he was having seven Royal Crest cut diamonds valued at $40,000 set into a $2,000 platinum ring at Diamond World in Hoover.

The diamonds had been taken from other pieces of jewelry he had given to his wife, and he was having them reset into a ring with a special design for her Christmas present, he said.

Diamond World sent the diamonds to a New York jeweler to be set, and the ring was returned to Hoover via United Parcel Service, Hoover police Capt. A.C. Roper said.

An employee at Diamond World signed as receiving the package on Nov. 20, and the jewelry store learned it was missing the first week in December, Roper said. Cotter was notified Tuesday and immediately contacted Hoover police.

“It’s just really painful because it’s family kind of stuff,” Cotter said. “There are a lot of personal and very special memories involved in those.”

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