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LA highway heist: Thieves make off with millions in gems, gold
foxbusiness.com ^ | July 23, 2022 | Timothy Nerozzi

Posted on 07/23/2022 7:28:47 PM PDT by lowbridge

Jewelry thieves struck a heavily-guarded truck outside Los Angeles this month and made off with tens of millions of dollars in gems.

The burglars descended on a Brink's Security vehicle in the wee hours of July 11 at about 2 a.m.

After two security guards, both armed, stepped away from the truck for a few minutes, the robbers made their move. 

The group of men made off with containers full of gems and gold that totaled in the tens of millions of dollars.

The robbers pulled off the entire stunt in less than half an hour.

"We are looking at more than $100 million in documented losses," International Gem and Jewelry Show President Arnold Duke told the Los Angeles Times. "This was an absolutely huge crime. One of the largest jewelry heists ever. We are talking gold, diamonds, rubies, emeralds and loads of luxury watches."

Standard Brinks security trucks are armored vehicles equipped with a variety of safety features and armed personnel. Anti-theft measures on company vehicles have included satellite tracking, a locking mechanism and security cameras.The

July 11 theft included stolen items ranging from cut gems to luxury watches, gold and jewelry. The losses could threaten several businesses whose merchandise was on the truck.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxbusiness.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: anarchotyranny; california; crime; dystopia; lawlessness; losangeles; theft
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1 posted on 07/23/2022 7:28:47 PM PDT by lowbridge
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"Any time you feel like it, take a break. Step away from the truck and stretch your legs."

Brinks Truck Crew Operating Manual

2 posted on 07/23/2022 7:31:14 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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Why would you move $100 million of goods in one truck?
Why did the guards step away?
Who was on the inside?


3 posted on 07/23/2022 7:31:37 PM PDT by DannyTN
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The guards need to be cool for several years, then the money rolls in. They were players.


4 posted on 07/23/2022 7:33:54 PM PDT by healy61
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To: lowbridge

So, Brink’s left $100 million unguarded? Who is their insurance underwriter?


5 posted on 07/23/2022 7:34:02 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (“And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds.” Hebrews 10:24)
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Somebody on the Brinks crew got paid off.

CC


6 posted on 07/23/2022 7:34:05 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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did the big guy get his 10%?


7 posted on 07/23/2022 7:37:52 PM PDT by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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Standard Brinks security trucks are armored vehicles equipped with a variety of safety features and armed personnel. Anti-theft measures on company vehicles have included satellite tracking, a locking mechanism and security cameras.

This was the Jeffrey Epstein memorial truck!

8 posted on 07/23/2022 7:38:08 PM PDT by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives: Ban Gun Free Zones)
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To: lowbridge

But did they steal any lupins?


9 posted on 07/23/2022 7:39:20 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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The big rig was at a Flying J. The gang of thieves was able to quickly bypass the truck’s trailer locking mechanism, enter its vast back.

“ Arnold Duke, president of the International Gem and Jewelry Show whose exhibitors displayed the items in San Mateo and were moving them to Pasadena, said the truck contained many 70- to 100-pound plastic containers filled with jewelry, gems and watches.”


10 posted on 07/23/2022 7:44:04 PM PDT by HollyB
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Time to buy that beach front house in Angola!


11 posted on 07/23/2022 7:44:51 PM PDT by Fai Mao
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To: Steely Tom

“And leave the doors unlocked.”


12 posted on 07/23/2022 7:45:00 PM PDT by TaMoDee (Come the Revolution --- The lucky ones will die!)
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Tens of millions of dollars / Biden Inflation / Los Angeles soft on crime policies / No bail for minor offenses/

Misdemeanor if you are the proper minority.

13 posted on 07/23/2022 7:45:23 PM PDT by Tupelo (Don't under estimate the Republicans ability to f*** things up)
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Deep State shenanigans?


14 posted on 07/23/2022 7:47:50 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. Never be a peaceful slave in a new Socialist America.)
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Hey, who doesn't need a new gold watch?
15 posted on 07/23/2022 7:51:37 PM PDT by GaltAdonis
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To: lowbridge

Black Bart!


16 posted on 07/23/2022 7:58:01 PM PDT by Graybeard58
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Sounds like an inside job to me.


17 posted on 07/23/2022 7:59:57 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Celtic Conservative

I think so as well.

The article says “they stepped away for a few minutes.”

One, always one guard stayed inside the truck when they are out and about.

So both out at the same time is abnormal.

Then the article says it took the thieves a half hour to rob the truck.

Two, since when do BOTH guards leave the truck that long with no one inside it?

Three, it just so happens that at the exact moment both guards leave the truck for a few minutes (half an hour or more), it just happens to get successfully robbed?

Four, a few minutes - over half an hour - the guards are gone and never come back to see it being robbed and engage the robbers...?

And 5, the robbers are polite enough to wait to rob the truck only after both guards decide to leave together for “a few minutes” that turns out to be more than long enough for the robbers to rob the truck and not get into a firefight with the guards...?

Its a inside job with these two guards.


18 posted on 07/23/2022 8:08:20 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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The guards need to be cool for several years, then the money rolls in. They were players.

The FIRST thought I had, was, inside job.

19 posted on 07/23/2022 8:09:18 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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20 posted on 07/23/2022 8:09:35 PM PDT by fso301
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