The FBI is now working with the Los Angeles Police to investigate a jewelry robbery that involved tunnel thieves through multiple walls to enter a jewelry store in downtown Los Angeles during the weekend.
Millions of dollars in gold and jewelry were stolen from the two boxes strengths of a jeweler from the center of a jeweler after the thieves of thieves went to the Broadway store through multiple reinforced walls, police said.
In the weekend theft security video, you can hear a massive drill carving through the main wall in the castle, making a hole large enough for a person to slide to enter Love Jewels, gold queen in Bradway and 5th Street.
The Los Angeles Police Department says that thieves on Sunday night go through a room next to the gold merchant in Broadway 500 block. LAPD officials said the owners informed the department that approximately $ 10 million in goods were tasks.
The main FBI robbery work group is to help LAPD in the investigation, said FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller.
Lapd Captain Raul Jovel, who supervises the central division of the department, said the thieves went to the building through Roxy, a small movie theater next door.
“They go through some really thick old walls. They enter a small room and then through a second wall,” Jovel said. “This was a serious excavation.”
Jovel said that initial was thought that only $ 5 million were stolen in jewels, but officials now believe that north or $ 10 million were tasks.
In recent years, thieves have entered jewelry through ramps, he said young. The tunnel, although weird, is not unheard of or. The thieves became a business in the fashion district, he said young. In northern California, thieves last summer He stole Didens de Armas to the tunnel in a store.
The jewelry, which has great security, is known for being the source of bling for rappers, artists and some gangsters. In social networks, the store has images of personal necklace tributes, gold Rolex clock straps, AK-47 in miniature embedded by diamonds, Baratijas M-4 and huge shelves of gold chains.
The theft is the last of a series of high profile caps in the film style that have seen millions in cash, gold or diamonds, while the suspects prevent detection. In 2022, up to $ 100 million in jewels of A large Brinks platform. As a guard and another entered a service station, A gang of thieves left with the massive route inside a 27 -minute window.
On Easter weekend in March last year, thieves stole as much as $ 30 million from Sylmar de Gardaworld cash storage Facility. The Los Angeles Police responded to three alarms during the duration of the installation, the greatest robbery in the history of the city on Easter weekend, but the criminals remained without being detected.
In the last caparra of the center tunnel, LAPD researchers say that thieves, after training, cut the feeding of the security camera, and there are no images of them within the business. However, LAPD forensic experts are examining the scene for digital footprints and DNA.
LapD researchers examined the recordings and determined that the robbery began around 9:30 pm on Sunday, but the robberies team could have begun to cut the adjacent properties before. The jewelers discovered theft on Monday morning when they arrived at their store.
Researchers believe that the probable high -level professional thieves spent several hours within the business. The modus operandi of such crime has already helped reduce potential suspects in the robbery.
The thieves have tasks to dig in vaults since at least the 1980s. At that time, there was a crew like the hole in the gang on the floor that tunnel under three banks of the area of the area, growing underground in all -terrain vehicles. They broke in two of the banks, which came out with around $ 270,000 and the content of security safety boxes worth millions.
In March 2024, thieves tried tunnel in a jeweler in Topanga Canyon Square in Chatsworth. According to the LAPD, the owner was working and activated the robbery alarm for the police to respond. The thieves had broken multiple walls in a neighboring room and another business to reach the interior wall of the jeweler.
