LA Jewelry Robbery
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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-17/multimillion-dollar-brinks-heist
It was a jewelry heist days in the making — one allegedly planned by thieves who had worked their way up to a major score after honing their covert craft in the parking lots and truck stops of San Bernardino County.
When they broke into a Brink’s big rig at a remote Grapevine truck stop in the dead of night three years ago, the men may have gotten more than they bargained for: a haul that could be worth up to $100 million.
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The affected jewelers occupy a humble corner of the field, selling at trade shows across the country. It’s a lifestyle that breeds camaraderie among the merchants, whose businesses are also, in many cases, enmeshed.
They often obtain merchandise from each other without paying for it up front, which allows the jewelers to take on expensive items without shelling out for them until they have sold. That complicated things for some of the victims, because they didn’t actually own certain items they lost in the heist. One of the jewelers, Kenny Lee, previously told The Times that the cost of his stolen goods was at least $12 million.
They did catch the guys however finally.
