Downtown Port Huron jeweler Rick Currie evicted

Customers of a downtown Port Huron jeweler are being told to file police reports if they had left jewelry with Rick Currie. 

Dan Deligianis, Currie's landlord, said he evicted him Saturday. 

"He didn't pay rent," Deligianis said, adding it had been an issue for years. "It came to the point where we had to do something." 

Attempts to contact Currie were not immediately successful Monday. 

Deligianis said he also evicted Currie from his loft and was told he left town. 

"That eviction is for termination of tenancy by 30-day Notice of Termination of Tenancy, not failure to pay rent," Deligianis' lawyer, Mark Davidson said in an email. 

A note on the store window from a court officer indicates Currie is not allowed to enter the building at 307 Huron Ave., and customers should contact police. 

Port Huron Police Chief Jeff Baker said in an email there have been four reports by noon Monday from customers who had dropped off property at the store. 

"We have not located him yet but are working on that to see where we go from here," Baker said. 

He said there are also safes in the store authorities need to access to determine if any property remains inside. 

Deligianis said he already has a new tenant for the space — the former Diana Sweet Shoppe. He said he couldn't yet say who it will be. 

He said the location needs to be cleaned up.

"He didn’t do anything in the store, he just walked out, locked the door," Deligianis said. 

Currie moved his shop to the Huron Avenue location in 2010. The shop had previously been on Grand River Avenue. 

"We have been your home town jewelers for over half a century," the company's website reads. "We have withstood the test of time by nurturing our relationship with you, our client."

Contact Liz Shepard at (810) 989-6273 or lshepard@gannett.com. Follow her on Twitter @lvshepard.