Officials charged seven men with the theft of 24 bags containing $100 million worth of gold, diamonds, gems, luxury watches, and other items from a Brink’s armored truck driving through California on July 11, 2022.
Ranging in age from 31 to 60, the men were all Los Angeles-area residents, living in Boyle Heights, Westlake, and Rampart Village, California.
The Hollywood-style robbery, which Justice Department officials said was the biggest jewelry grab they had ever seen, started when the goods were loaded onto a Brink’s truck following a gem and jewelry show south of San Francisco.
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The shows featured everything from decorative beads to rare Rolex watches. On the truck was millions of dollars’ worth of jewelry Jean Malki, a veteran jeweler with four decades under his belt, had
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