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City police release photos of suspects in jewelry scam

Medicine Hat, AB – Merchants in Medicine Hat are being advised to be on the alert for a theft scam that’s making the rounds.

Suspects are visiting various jewelry stores, typically in teams of two, where they ask to see a piece of jewelry…..

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Ram-raid on Leeds Rolex watch shop caught on camera

Two cars drove on to a pedestrian street and tried to ram-raid a high-end watch shop.
West Yorkshire Police said the cars drove on to Commercial Street in Leeds at about 11:55 GMT……

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Hinton RCMP seek public assistance in jewellery theft

Hinton, Alberta – On February 2, 2018 at approximately 3:15 p.m. two male suspects entered the Goldsmith Jewellers store in Parks West Mall. Suspects distracted the employees and were able to steal one diamond ring and three zirconia-type rings…..

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Stuart police seek help identifying 2 suspects in jewelry store thefts

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STUART — Police are searching for two people they said stole multiple items from an estate jewelry store in December.
In surveillance video of the incident, a man and a woman are shown taking turns distracting a store employee, luring him away from the jewelry case, while the other reaches behind the counter to collect their five-finger discount…..

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Hatton Garden jewellery thief dies in jail

The judge handling the case said number of the defendants were not only “of a certain age, but have in some cases serious health problem”
Terry Perkins, one of the gang members involved with the Hatton Garden jewellery raid, has died in prison aged 69.
He was one of the four ringleaders behind the notorious robbery and his death comes just one week after the gang was ordered to pay a total fine of £27.5m or spend seven more years in jail……

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Fourth man charged in Leicester jeweller murder inquiry

Jeweller Ramniklal Jogiya, 74, was found dead near his shop on January 25
A fourth man has been charged in connection with the death and alleged kidnap of a jeweller from Leicester.
The jeweller who was named as Ramniklal Jogiya, 74, was found dead in Gaulby Lane, Stoughton on January 25 after he had gone missing as he walked home from work….

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Dramatic moment ‘hero’ calmly takes off his jacket and wrestles jewellery store thief to the ground while out shopping for a ring with his fiancée

A shopper has been praised for his courageous actions after he was captured on video tackling a thief during a botched jewellery store robbery. CCTV footage hailed as ‘amazing’ by the shop’s owners shows Andy Fiddler, 52, tearing off his jacket in preparation before tackling the man during the raid at DJM Goldsmiths in Preston, Lancashire.

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Police release CCTV images of murder suspect wearing a BURKA before jewellery shop owner was kidnapped and killed

Police have released images of a murder suspect who was caught on CCTV wearing a full-body burka and wheeling a shopping trolley. The grainy pictures show a person pulling a trolley into Vama Collections on Belgrave Road in Leicester just minutes after Mr Jogiya had locked up for the night and left.

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Tokyo cops arrest 7 members of ‘Pink Panda’ gang over thefts at jewelry show

Und wieder einmal Recht gehabt – hier die Meldung aus Tokyo – es waren Mitglieder von Pink Panda

TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested seven Chinese nationals believed to be members of the so-called “Pink Panda” gang in the theft of jewels at an exposition in Koto Ward this week, reports TBS News (Jan. 26).

Over the course of the International Jewelry Tokyo show at Tokyo Big Sight, which began on Wednesday, Tokyo police arrested the seven male and female suspects over the alleged theft of pearls and necklaces valued at around 15 million yen from dealers.

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JSA Offering $10K Reward in Calif. Murder

Highland, Calif.–The Jewelers’ Security Alliance is offering a reward for information leading to the arrest of two men wanted in connection with a fatal attempted robbery last week.
According to the JSA, the suspects entered a jewelry and pawn shop in Highland, California, at 12:58 p.m. on Jan. 10, threw a Molotov cocktail on the counter and then opened fire…..

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