Seven shipments of $ 100 million in the theft of jewelry in California, the largest in the history of the United States

Seven people were accused of carrying out the theft of 2022 jewelry that officials say it is the “largest” in American history.

The theft occurred in California in July 2022 when the Brenx truck stopped a large amount of jewelry from a commercial exhibition at a rest station, The US Prosecutor’s Office for the Central Region in California He said.

Gold, diamonds, sapphire, emerald and luxurious watches are worth Almost $ 100 million It was taken, according to the lawyer office.

Almost three years later, seven suspects They are accused.

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The US Public Prosecutor’s Office for the Central Region in California said that those involved in the Kabir were subjected to two accusations of conspiracy to commit the theft of fast and foreign shipments and the theft of fast and foreign shipments.

Carlos Victor Mikanza Serrado, Jazel Badilla, Pablo Raul Lugo Larij, Victor Hugo Valencia Solorzano, George Enrique Alban, Jason Nylon, Flores, and Eduaro Massias Eibra are the defendants. The age of 31 to 60.

The ICT Office (ACT) said that Mestanza, Padilla, Lugo, Valencia and Alban “are accused of conspiring to interfere in trade through theft and intervention in trade by Attorney (ACT), as well as additional charges of theft from the highway and foreign charging.”

The theft occurred on the Brenx truck in July 2022.

The indictment claimed that the indictment was a judge that the indictment was judge the truck shading for approximately 300 miles, as the defendants traveled to shade the truck for a distance of approximately 300 miles while traveling from the “International Jewelry Gallery” in San Matteo.

The indictment was accused of Mestanza, Lugo and Alban of exploring the truck that leaves the show on the evening of June 11, 2022.

The lawyer’s office claimed that some of the defendants committed other thefts in the months before the theft of jewelry.

In March of that year, it is also claimed that Mestanza, Padilla, Lugo and Valencia “have stolen Samsung Electronics worth $ 240,573 of shipping shipment in Ontario, California, and dairy as well Apple Aartags At another $ 57,377 from another truck, according to the prosecutor’s office.

They took $ 14,081 in Samsung Electronics from a shipment Fontana, California, In late May of that year, the lawyer office also claims.

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The press statement of the Prosecutor’s Office pointed out allegations that the defendant committed a crime.

Akil Davis, the assistant director responsible for the Los Angeles office in Los Angeles, said in a statement published by X that the investigation “took years of smooth cooperation by the office and the Los Angeles Sharif province.”

Davis added: “I am grateful because we can finally start providing answers to the victims of this huge theft and offer them a degree of justice by holding these defendants accountable.”

The Fontana Police Department and the Ontario Police Department also participated in the investigation, according to the press statement issued by the US Prosecutor’s Central Region Office in California.

The authorities are executed The lawyer’s office said that the search orders earlier in the week seized some jewelry.

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Jewelry companies in the United States suffered losses of 142.5 million dollars due to crimes last year, according to the jewelry security alliance, by 7 % in 2023, when it was 133.2 million dollars.