As some may not know given that this occured during our down-time, my Duchy capital of Port Goldcrest was bombed about a month ago. destruction was pretty bad, with multiple buildings reduced to craters and my storehouse with all my resources wiped out. My suspicion fell on the two new serfs who had recently joined me in Laborate: Brawlator, whom I know irl, and Curlytop, a friend of Brawlator whom I'm not acquainted with. I had no evidence to back up these suspicions, but I severely doubted Brawlator would have needlessly destroyed my work. A couple of days later, I received a text from him that included a picture of a chest containing my diamonds and other precious goods; he told me he had found it in his mines (located in his settlement a few thousand blocks from Goldcrest). I concluded that Curlytop had probably stolen them and hidden them in the mines which they collaborated on. As both were removed from the whitelist shortly after, no legal proceedings ever took place.
Picture of my chest:
The other day, I received this series of texts from Brawlator: 
It has yet to be determined whether or not a trial will take place. Should we discuss allowing him back to stand trial?
Second point: With this post, I am making a formal request to gain access to a search warrant (an x-ray mod) in order to search Brawlator's mines and recover my belongings. I know this may be controversial, as while x-ray has been used in the past (i.e the search for Tirion's chest) it has been for a server-wide endeavor. If permitted, this would allow either me or someone else if they wanted to make use of a x-ray resource pack for the time it would take to locate the chest.
