South American Jewel Thieves Targeting Smaller Cities

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South American Jewel Thieves Targeting Smaller Cities

Allegedly, a violent, well-organized ring of South American jewelry thieves is expanding its operations away from large metropolitan areas such as New York, Miami, Houston and Chicago and hitting targets in smaller cities in the South.

In one incident in Little Rock, diamond merchant Faramarz Hakimian, 48, of New York had just pulled into the parking lot of an upscale strip mall July 29 when two masked men jumped out of a black Chevrolet behind him, smashed his car windows, pulled a gun and told him to lie down on the seat. The assailants took his keys and stole a satchel with half a million dollars’ worth of jewelry from the car’s back seat, all in broad daylight in front of witnesses at the jewelry shop that Hakimian had come to visit.

Between April 22 and May 15 in Houston, at least $3.5 million worth of jewelry was stolen in six robberies, which the FBI considers related and linked to the South American ring. On May 14, a jewelry merchant was robbed at a gas station. Despite massive media and law enforcement attention, the next day another salesman was pistol-whipped and robbed in a Waffle House where he had stopped for lunch.

Source: Violent S. American Jewel Thieves May Be Hitting Smaller U.S. Cities

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