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Jewelers Mutual, Securitas Partner for Alarm Response Program

The security company will dispatch a security officer to investigate when an alarm goes off at participating jewelry stores.
Neenah, Wis.—Jewelers Mutual is helping add an extra layer of protection for jewelers with the launch of an alarm response program. The new offering is supported by protective services company Securitas…..

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Customs Seizes $718K in Fake Designer Jewelry

Counterfeit Gucci and Chanel pieces were among the items CBP officers in Cincinnati nabbed last month.
…The package, originating from China and heading to New York City, was labeled as a shipment of stainless steel bracelets worth $367, CBP said in a news release issued last week.
Officers found it contained 364 pieces of counterfeit jewelry. If genuine, the jewelry would be worth $717,930…..

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John Kennedy to Receive 2021 Gem Award for Lifetime Achievement

He’s been with the Jewelers’ Security Alliance for nearly 30 years, dedicating himself to the safety of the industry.New York—This year’s recipient of the Gem Award for Lifetime Achievement is none other than Jewelers’ Security Alliance President John Kennedy. ….

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Incredible footage captures failed cash-in-transit truck heist in South Africa

The hero guard who managed to keep his cool, despite his armoured car being attacked in a hail of bullets by two cars of gunmen, has been identified as a former police sniper. Leo Prinsloo, 48, was caught on the vehicle’s dashcam frantically battling the two groups of robbers as they attacked his cash-in-transit truck in South Africa.

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A worker and a policeman injured in the robbery of a Madrid jewelry store with hostages

An armed robbery with hostages in a jewelry store in the Salamanca district of Madrid has left two lightly injured on Tuesday, one of them an employee who has been shot in the abdomen and, the other, a policeman who has been hit in the head the splinters of the shot, police sources have informed this newspaper. The event took place in the early afternoon at L’Ermitage, a luxury establishment located at 25 Calle de Ayala. The robber has already been arrested.

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30 ARRESTED IN THE NETHERLANDS AND POLAND AFTER 5,4 MILLION COUNTERFEIT CIGARETTES SEIZED

An international law enforcement operation involving the Netherlands, Poland and Europol has resulted in the arrest of 30 members of a prolific organised crime gang flooding Europe with millions of counterfeit cigarettes.

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Romanian man arrested in Greece over Swiss watch theft

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities have arrested a 48-year-old Romanian man wanted in Switzerland over the theft of four watches with a total worth of over 1 million euros ($1.1 million)…..

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Old fashioned heist goes wrong when burglary trio set off alarm while knocking hole in wall

Pedestrians were amazed to see three burglars covered in brick dust running from a Cheltenham fabrics store after they set off an alarm while attempting an ‘old fashioned heist’ – knocking a hole through a cellar wall into the jeweller’s nextdoor! On January 9th this year, the trio broke into the Cheltenham Tweed shop in the Promenade and drilled their way through the dividing wall in the basement to get into the adjacent shop full of valuables, Gloucester Crown Court was told yesterday (March 29)…..

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JSA Issues Warning About Watch Robberies

New York—The Jewelers’ Security Alliance is warning jewelers to be wary of the risks involved in wearing expensive watches following a string of robberies on both coasts.
One of the most widely reported robberies involved Los Angeles jeweler Shay Belhassen, who was out to lunch in Beverly Hills when three armed men grabbed him from behind, choked him and put a gun to his head, JSA said. ….

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Colombian citizen accused of stealing suitcase with jewelry extradited to Russia

MOSCOW, March 9 (RAPSI) — Colombian citizen Edgar Alejandro Valero, who stands charged with stealing a travel suitcase with jewelry at a fair in the city of Kazan, was extradited to Russia from Argentina, the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office informs RAPSI on Tuesday.
Investigators believe that in July 2018 in the city of Kazan, in the pavilion of the Kazanskaya Yarmarka exhibition center, Valero and his accomplices stole a travel suitcase from an employee of the Seven Diamonds jewelry company, which contained jewelry worth 160 million rubles ($2 million at the current exchange rate). The Colombian fled from the scene of the crime in a car he prepared beforehand, according to the supervisory authority’s statement…..

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