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Los Angeles Jewelry Theft Ring Arrested on East Coast

By Steven Rodriguez

Members of a Los Angeles-based jewelry theft ring were arrested and jailed in New Jersey Monday. Six men, all with California addresses, were arrested for the robbery of an Indiana jewelry merchant after a nationwide manhunt that radiated from the scene of the crime in central Ohio. In a well organized robbery that Ohio law enforcement officials termed “highly professional,” thieves followed and attacked a jeweler carrying more than $1 million worth of jewelry. In Columbus, Ohio for a jewelry show, the jeweler was waiting in his locked and running SUV while his wife and daughter went inside a local restaurant to eat. Robbers surprised the jeweler, blocking his escape with their getaway car, smashing the side and rear windows of the SUV and threatening the man...continue to full post

Full post as published by LA Criminal Defense Blog on April 08, 2009 (boomark / email).