Jewelers in Los Angeles are facing a wave of brazen heists on freeways, with incidents involving shattered windows, slashed tires, and stolen goods worth over $100k. One victim used AirTags to track stolen jewels but received no response from authorities. South American theft gangs are reportedly behind these daylight robberies. In a separate incident, $200k worth of jewelry was stolen from a Daly City home.
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South American theft gangs are targeting jewelers — and robbing them on L.A. freeways. The heists, often carried out in broad daylight, have a brazen quality befitting an action movie, or at least a TV police procedural. An inside look at the crime wave: https://t.co/5ypHs8BDu1
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Jewelers robbed in freeway heists question the authorities' response. One woman robbed in Oct. had put AirTags on her stolen jewels and tracked the locales of the goods, worth $100k+, for months. She tried to share this w/ CHP, but it “never followed up." https://t.co/5ypHs8BDu1
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