Tom Brady's alleged jersey thief is considered a 'god in the collecting world' and his big blunder was sending a picture of a jersey to another memorabilia collector

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The mystery of Tom Brady's missing Super Bowl 51 jersey has been solved, thanks to the work of US and Mexican authorities.

As Fox Sports' Jay Glazer reported in March, authorities were able to track down Brady's stolen jersey because the alleged thief was caught on camera in the Patriots locker room, milling around, looking at the camera, and later leaving with a bag under his arm.

However, according to Robert Klemko and Jenny Vrentas of the MMQB, authorities actually used a scrupulous process to nail down who, exactly, took the jersey.