NEWPORT NEWS, Va., May 21 (UPI) -- The parents of a Newport News, Va., middle school student says their son tracked down the owner of a ring he found with his metal detector and returned it.

Jose Velazquez said his 13-year-old son, Joshua, keeps most of what he finds with his metal detector, but he decided to track down the owner of a 14-karat white gold class ring that contained a ruby after he found it at Yorktown Beach, The (Newport News, Va.) Daily Press reported Wednesday.

Velazquez said the ring was inscribed with Woodside High '08 and the name Vivianne M. Corrales. He said the family found only one Corrales in the Woodside High zip code using whitepages.com and was able to contact the senior, who hadn't yet realized the ring was missing.

Additionally, the Velazquez family said Corrales also was the owner of a silver friendship ring Joshua found in the same area as the first ring a few days later.

Velazquez said the decision about whether to track down the owner of the rings had been left up to Joshua.

"I'm proud of his decision to turn it in," Jose Velazquez said.