Michelle Hawkins had resigned herself to the fact she probably would never again see two expensive pieces of furniture that were taken while being delivered to her business on First Street in downtown Napa.

Hawkins was wrong. Not only has she been reunited with the furniture, she was the one who cracked the case.

A piece of a sectional couch and a chair, worth about $2,000, were being delivered to Hawkins' furniture store, Haven, last Thursday. The delivery truck had to park on Randolph Street, and the furniture was carted around the corner to Haven. While the two pieces of furniture were sitting on Randolph Street, they disappeared, Hawkins said. "The truck dropped off the furniture at 4:30 p.m., and by 5 p.m., the two pieces were missing."

On Monday night, shortly after closing up shop around 6 p.m., Hawkins decided to meander down First Street and do some Christmas shopping.

As she strolled by a business not far from her store, she spotted the piece of the sectional in the store front window.

"I was stunned. I went inside the store and told the owner that was my furniture. I called the police," she said.

After police arrived and interviewed the store owner. It boiled down to a huge misunderstanding, Hawkins said.

"They said the furniture was sitting on the sidewalk, and they thought it was free. They said someone had put a free sign on it," she said. "Another person from the store brought the chair from their house and gave it back to me."

Hawkins did not request criminal charges be filed against the store owner. "I was just really happy to have the furniture back," she said. "I'm sure there was no criminal intent on their part."