6/1/20 - Looters have targeted several jewelry stores across the US over the past several days. Click here to read about a few of these incidents. The Jewelers Security Alliance has released a crime alert on Security Advice in Case of Rioting and Looting. ...
MAN BELIEVED TO BE LOOTER SHOT DEAD DURING RIOT – MINNEAPOLIS, MN
On 5/27/20, at approximately 9:05 p.m., a jewelry pawn shop owner shot and killed a man he said was looting his business. A 59-year-old man was booked into the Hennepin County Jail on suspicion of committing the shooting. The jewelry store is located appr ...
DISTRICT ATTORNEY FINDS OFFICER’S USE OF FORCE JUSTIFIED – AUSTIN, TX
On 5/27/20, the office of the Travis County District Attorney Margaret Moore concluded its review of an officer involved shooting at a jewelry store on 7/29/18. On that date, at approximately 4:00 a.m., officers from the Sunset Valley Police Department re ...
JSA WEBINAR ON STORE RE-OPENINGS & COVID-19 – NEW YORK, NY
On 5/27/20, at 12:00 p.m. EDT, John Kennedy, President of Jewelers' Security Alliance offered live, online advice on security for store re-openings. The webinar discussed such Covid-19 related issues as masks and curbside delivery. There was also a questi ...
SUSPECTS ARRESTED AFTER $150K SMASH & GRAB – TRACY, CA
Two men who are believed to have worn N95 masks during a smash & grab robbery in Tracy, CA on 5/7/20 were recently arrested.� On the day of the crime, the suspects entered a store and proceeded to use a mallet to smash display cases. They stole ...
TWO THIEVES IDENTIFIED AFTER $69K THEFT – LANCASTER, PA
East Lampeter Township police have issued arrest warrants for Danilo Enrique Carrasco-Velazquez, 56 and Patricia Andrea Rubio-Elgueta, 47. The two suspects and an unidentified man stole nearly $70,000 worth of jewelry from a department store last June. Th ...
TWO ARRESTED FOR BURGLARY – BRENTWOOD, CA
On 5/15/20, the Brentwood Police Department arrested two suspects who attempted to burglarize a jewelry store. The jewelry store stated that their security system caught a subject attempting to break into the store on Friday. The subject returned Saturday ...
SUBJECT WANTED FOR ATTEMPTED BURGLARY – BABYLON, NY
The Suffolk County Police recently announced that they are looking for a subject who attempted to break into a jewelry store on 4/26/20 at 1:30 a.m. The subject is White, approximately 5'7" and has a thin build. He threw three bricks through the store's w ...
NEW HEARING ORDERED FOLLOWING LENGTHY SENTENCE – EBENSBURG, PA
Late last week, a Pennsylvania Superior Court ordered a new sentencing for a man who was charged with organized retail theft from a jewelry store in Ebensburg, PA in November 2012. The Superior Court panel came to the conclusion that Judge Norman Krumenac ...
3 ROBBERS NAMED; 1 WROTE A LETTER OF APOLOGY TO GUARD – AUSTIN, TX
The Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI) has named the three suspects accused of committing a robbery and shooting at a jewelry store in Austin, TX on 5/7/20. The suspects are Darius Limar Sonnier, 21; Wallace Daiveon Charles, 20; and Tye Joseph-Phillip ...