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5 from Ohio indicted in $1.2 million Monroeville diamond, jewelry heist

Five Ohio residents have been indicted in the theft of about $1.2 million worth of diamonds and jewelry in a strong-arm robbery of a New York jewelry merchant outside a Monroeville restaurant last year, according to the U.S. attorney in Cincinnati.

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86-year-old international jewel thief out of jail again

PALM DESERT — An 86-year-old jewel thief whose decades of exploits include crimes at home and abroad — including the 2013 theft of a diamond ring from a Palm Desert store — is out of custody again following two recent brushes with the law in Georgia.

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Woman finds S$172k diamond ring – loot from heist – in Hong Kong park

HONG KONG – A woman found a diamond ring worth around HK$1 million (S$172,180) in Kowloon Park on Tuesday (Sept 19) afternoon, and the item has been confirmed to be one of nine pieces stolen in a daring daylight robbery.

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Gang steals Dh1.5m worth of jewellery from shop in Dubai

Five men stole jewellery valued at more than Dh1m from a shop in Dubai International City, Dubai Criminal Court was told on Tuesday. On July 12, the masked men allegedly entered the shop armed with knives and sprayed the shop workers with pepper spray before locking them all up in the shop’s toilet and stealing the jewellery.

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Thieves make off with HK$24 million in jewellery in daring Hong Kong smash-and-grab raid

Trio break open store window before fleeing on motorbike from busy shopping area

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Watch: ‘Ninja’ Romanian Crime Academy gang in £3m jewellery raids

The six-man gang led by Adrian ‘The Dad’ Botez took £400,000 of watches in just one raid on a Beaverbrooks branch. A new TV documentary has revealed how a Midlands “crime academy” gang were jailed for almost 50 years for plundering more than £3 million-worth of jewellery in a massive series of heists . The six-man gang struck across the country and took £400,000 of watches in just one raid on a Beaverbrooks branch in Stoke-on-Trent.

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The Jewel Raiders: Tonight

An ITV Tonight investigation reveals that Adrian ‘The Dad’ Botez, inspired by the notorious jewel thieves The Pink Panthers, ran a gang of ‘ninja-like’ jewel raiders, who robbed £3.1m worth of goods from 11 high-end stores across England in a year-long spree.

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THIEF STEALS $300,000 DIAMOND FROM SYDNEY JEWELLERY STORE

A BOLD thief has swiped a five-carat diamond worth more than $300,000 from a jewellery store in Martin Place.
The bandit pinched the unset stone from Cerrone Jewellers while the store worker’s back was turned on Tuesday morning, swiftly replacing it with a comparatively worthless cubic zirconia – a cheap knock-off…..

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Serial con man admits ripping off luxury retailers from Miami prison cell

Sabatino, who has been in and out of jail his entire adult life, pleaded guilty yet again in Miami federal court on Friday, this time for using cellphones purchased from corrections officers to run a racket that involved duping luxury retailers and fencing high-priced goods through pawn shops…….

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Couple Wanted for Serial Diamond Switches Arrested in Texas

Waco, Texas–The couple wanted for switching diamond rings with cubic zirconia versions in jewelry stores across Texas and Oklahoma have been arrested.
According to the Waco Tribune-Herald, David Luis Sixtos and Ashley Vanessa Tarango were arrested in Waco in the last few days of August. According to the arrest affidavit, the pair confessed to carrying out their bait-and-switch scheme at a Waco Zales, as well as several other stores in Texas…..

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