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Organised crime gang from Lithuania jailed for 21 years for Devon burglary spree

MEMBERS of a Lithuanian gang who travelled the country breaking into houses as part of an organised crime plot have been sentenced to a total of 21 years in prison.

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£1 ‘confiscated’ from £600,000 jewel thief

A confiscation order for £1 has been granted against a man who was part of a gang which stole more than £600,000 of goods from a Glasgow shopping centre.

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Gardai recover jewellery worth €1.7m from travelling crime gangs

Gardaí have recovered a major haul of stolen jewellery that had been taken by travelling gangs from victims’ homes in three provinces.

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Wellington jewellery maker pleads for return of $10,000 of stolen pieces

A Wellington jeweller has been stung by a thief who stole $10,000 of her distinctive jewellery from a courier bag in her letterbox that was waiting for a pickup. As she had done before Natalie Salisbury had put the 57 pieces of jewellery in a courier bag destined for her gold plater in her letterbox outside her Island Bay home.

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Three men found guilty over Hatton Garden raid

Three men have been found guilty for their involvement in the Hatton Garden raid trial, which took place over the Easter bank holiday weekend last year…….

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Japan INTERPOL Purple notice brings arrest of two international jewel thieves

TOKYO, Japan – As a result of the worldwide circulation of an INTERPOL Purple Notice, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department arrested two Chinese suspects on 20 August at Narita Airport for stealing just months earlier a diamond ring valued at USD 170,000…..

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Is this the end for the Pink Panthers?

Gang behind world’s most elaborate gem heists ‘on brink’ as founder is caught with flat full of Croatia ambassador’s jewellery
Panthers behind £250million worth of world’s most audacious jewel heists
In 2013 gang stole £90million of jewellery in Cannes in most lucrative raid
But group co-founder Rakjo Causevic arrested Croatia ambassadors jewels
Security experts warning net is closing around world’s biggest gem thieves
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Sri Lankan man arrested at airport ‘for smuggling gold in rectum’

Customs officers at Bandaranaike International Airport stopped the 42-year-old man after noticing that he was “walking suspiciously”. He had arrived in Sri Lanka at around 1.30am on Tuesday on a flight from Singapore.

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Pictures: CCTV images of gang who raided Fraser Hart

After a smash-and-grab burglary at a jewellery store in the city centre on Saturday morning, police have released CCTV images of the gang who stole around £650,000 worth of goods. Thieves smashed the windows of Fraser Hart jewellery shop in Silbury Arcade before stealing valuable jewellery. They also started a fire, padlocked a chain across a road and blocked a street with tree trunks.

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VIDEO: Five jailed following smash-and-grab jewellery raid

A gang of five have been jailed for over 30 years after carrying out a smash-and-grab raid on an East London jewellery store.
The incident took place at around 10:50am on 9 October 2014, when four men on two mopeds drove on to the pavement outside Attenborough Jewellers on Bethnal Green Road in Tower Hamlets, stormed the shop and stole £12,000 worth of jewellery……

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