“We are working with law enforcement, and we will fully reimburse our customers for the value of their assets that were stolen, in accordance with the terms of our contract.” The FBI is investigating the robbery. “According to the information the customers provided to us before they shipped their items, the total value of the missing items is less than $10 million,” the famous security firm said in a statement. It wasn’t clear if there was surveillance video of the heist, either.īrink’s disputed the massive estimate on the stolen jewels, putting the total loss at “less than $10 million,’’ citing what the vendors reported to them before the doomed shipment took off. Getty Imagesįurther details about how the robbery occurred were not released. Swason said that some people have “lost their livelihood” as a result of the robbery. The truck had apparently nearly made it to its destination when it was robbed in the mountain community of Frazier Park, an FBI spokeswoman said. The precious cargo had been loaded onto a Brink’s truck the night before, after an International Gem and Jewelry Show in San Mateo south of San Francisco, and was being driven more than five and a half hours away to another showcase at the Pasadena Convention Center northeast of Los Angeles. The FBI is now investigating the crime, which occurred early Monday, July 11 - and could have been part of a plot in the famed “Ocean’s” heist flick franchise. “You’re looking at 19-karat yellow gold with over 100 carats of multicolored sapphire,” the jeweler said of some of his items. “My life - that’s how I live, that’s how I feed my kids,’’ said a distraught vendor, who lost priceless inventory in the theft, to the local CBS-TV affiliate KPIX. Last week’s stunningly brazen theft netted a haul featuring rare, vintage, one-of-a-kind pieces stuffed into 25 to 30 bags in the back of the high-security vehicle, according to officials and reports. Tennessee couple arrested, charged after allegedly stealing from a churchīrutal video shows Bronx thieves who snatched $180K of jewelry from a victimĬalifornia thieves pulled off a heist straight out of “Ocean’s 11’’ - swiping up to $150 million in jewels from a Brink’s armored truck as it drove from one convention show to another, authorities and vendors say. Police investigating possible link between robberies of off-duty NYPD cops Suspected thief arrested for attempted rape of girl, 15, months after Bragg reduced charges

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