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Video catches family participating in $20,000 jewelry robbery
wsbtv.com ^ | 12/24/2013 | unknown

Posted on 12/24/2013 9:36:23 PM PST by armydawg505

NORCROSS, Ga. — Norcross police now believe a group of adults and a child seen on surveillance video robbing a jewelry store is actually a family of career criminals.

The Legacy Jewels store inside Global Mall on Jimmy Carter Boulevard was robbed Nov. 19. The thieves were so smooth in their heist that store workers didn't even realize $20,000 worth of jewels was missing until they went to close the store hours later.

The surveillance video, according to police, shows a man and young boy about 7 or 8 years old walking into the store. The pair talk to a clerk about some items but police believe it was simply a distraction for two women who were standing nearby.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: thieves
If oppressed minorities put as much time and effort into working for a living as some of them do breaking the law, we might see an end to poverty.
1 posted on 12/24/2013 9:36:23 PM PST by armydawg505
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To: armydawg505

The odds are better than even that these “good folks” were part of a gypsy clan.


2 posted on 12/24/2013 9:40:27 PM PST by House Atreides
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To: House Atreides

Looks like it could well be.


3 posted on 12/24/2013 9:43:39 PM PST by armydawg505
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To: armydawg505

Ex was a GIA certified gemologist/jeweler. Even back then, gypsies would do smash & grabs as a family. All the jewelers were warned just to let them have whatever they wanted because they’d maim or kill you if you tried to stop them.


4 posted on 12/24/2013 10:09:55 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (A courageous man finds a way, an ordinary man finds an excuse.)
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To: armydawg505

Do gypsies qualify as oppressed minorities?

Anyway, they do home kick burglaries the same way such that in some cases the homeowner is faced with shooting the little kid or not as they use their own kid as a “hostage” backing away.

Typically the women are also armed and know how to aggressively fight, not just their men.

They generally stake out a location (home, office, shop) and move in for the kill when they outnumber the occupants.

If one does get yelled at, the others from different points inside the room will attack, then they will all run out in different directions.


5 posted on 12/24/2013 10:24:41 PM PST by Southack (The one thing preppers need from the 1st World? http://tinyurl.com/ktfwljc .)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is some rare footage...most the clans are into
Politics now...more lucrative,less risK.....
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6 posted on 12/24/2013 10:35:43 PM PST by Therapsid (i)
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To: House Atreides

“travellers”


7 posted on 12/24/2013 10:43:56 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: armydawg505

That clerk is worse than useless!


8 posted on 12/24/2013 11:11:01 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

“That clerk is worse than useless!”

The store was located ironically, on Jimmy Carter Blvd.


9 posted on 12/24/2013 11:16:33 PM PST by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: armydawg505

That is some fatazz Travelers.


10 posted on 12/24/2013 11:22:02 PM PST by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum -- "The Taliban is inside the building")
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To: armydawg505

Gypsies. Guess what, they steal.


11 posted on 12/24/2013 11:37:50 PM PST by Born to Conserve
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To: House Atreides
Long before Hitler was exterminating the Jews and the mentally handicapped, he was rounding up gypsies and ‘offing’ them, for drain on the state that they represented. In addition to their thievery, they lived in wagons and never stayed in one place long enough to be taxed.
Interesting story: My insurance guy processed a claim for a young gypsy woman once. While filling out papers he asked again for her social security card number and found it in his stack of papers as she handed her card to him. The numbers didn't match! She said, ‘Oh, I gave you the wrong card.’ Bingo! When Gypsies die, they don't report it to anyone, just bury them in the woods and keep their social security identities alive and receiving. This woman was collecting social security for her dead mom, aunt and grandma in addition to her own. This might also explain why some of them claim to be incredibly old.
12 posted on 12/25/2013 12:05:11 AM PST by ArtDodger
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I have a third alternative in mind. As a young man I worked in the accounting office of a large Catholic Chicago hospital. An old gypsy was in for surgery and about 75 gypsies camped out in the visitors waiting. After the second day the gift shop and cafeteria showed massive losses of food, merchandise, stainless silverware even small store display fixtures.

Early the third day a bunch of off-duty, mostly Catholic cops showed up and escorted ten or twelve of the gypsy men on a tour of the back grounds of the hospital. After the tour was over, the visitors all left leaving only very well-behaved immediate family members.


13 posted on 12/25/2013 12:15:40 AM PST by muir_redwoods (When I first read it, " Atlas Shrugged" was fiction)
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To: House Atreides

They aren’t gypsies. They’re Mexicans. Likely a couple of illegal parents who’ve had children here. Just doing the job Americans won’t do.


14 posted on 12/25/2013 3:08:01 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: armydawg505

One thing I noticed is how easy the thieves were able to just slide the door open to steal the jewels. Most jewelers I have been to lock the door so you need a key to open the sliding door. Makes me think the jewels were not very valuable?


15 posted on 12/25/2013 5:06:24 AM PST by rawhide
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To: House Atreides

They looked like gypsy’s to me, is there a Carnival in town?

One wonders the true value of the Jewels. Jewelry stores mark up prices at least double sometimes much more.

They probably fenced for around $2,000 dollars.


16 posted on 12/25/2013 5:41:34 AM PST by Venturer (Half Staff the Flag of the US for Terrorists.)
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To: House Atreides

Thus the word “gyped” when referring to being cheated.


17 posted on 12/25/2013 7:25:22 AM PST by Portcall24
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