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Jewelry Heist Leads to New Jersey Bust

By Lependorf & Silverstein

Westerville police officials believe that the recent arrest of six men in a New Jersey hotel has broken a jewelry theft ring that operated on a national scale. According to this report, police used DNA evidence and fingerprints taken from the scene of a jewel heist to link the men to a string of recent robberies of jewelers in New Jersey, New York City and other locations across the country. The robbery leading to the arrests took place in the parking lot of a fast food restaurant in Westerville when a jeweler from Indiana was lost on his way to a jewelry show and stopped to ask directions to his hotel. The jeweler waited in his SUV while his wife and daughter went into the restaurant to ask directions and get something to eat. While they were inside, the thieves broke several windows of the SUV, threatened the jeweler with a firearm and began taking suitcases filled with $1 million worth of jewelry out of the vehicle...continue to full post

Full post as published by New Jersey Criminal Defense Blog on April 29, 2009 (boomark / email).