5 men charged in connection with attempted robbery at Brampton jewelry store – Toronto
Five men have been arrested in connection with an armed robbery attempt in Brampton, Ont., police say.
Peel Regional Police said that on April 6 at around 11 am, officers received a report of an attempted robbery at a jewelry store in the McLaughlin Road and Wanless Drive area.
Police said suspects, allegedly armed with firearms and other weapons, attempted to break into the store but were not successful.
Officers said the suspects fled the area in a white Dodge Durango which did not have license plates.
Police said one victim suffered minor injuries in the incident.
“Investigative efforts led
Man with hammer robs Victoria jewelry store
A downtown Victoria jewelry shop owner says he and his staff feared for their lives when a man armed with a hammer walked in during business hours and demanded they hand over merchandise.
Rafal Zebrowski owns Francis Jewelers in the 600-block of Broughton Street and says the incident, which happened around 4 pm Saturday, left staff and customers shaking up and wiping away tears in the aftermath of something they’d never experienced before.
“We had a pretty traumatic experience when an individual came into the store with the clear intention of robbing us,” Zebrowski told CHEK News Sunday, standing in
Heidi Horten: Christie’s largest jewelry sale: A billionaire widow, diamonds and a fortune built on Nazi plunder | Society
Lope de Vega wrote in his play, La Circe (1624): “Que la sombra de un hombre poderoso / claro en linaje / mil delitos cubre” — That shadow of a powerful man / clear in lineage / covers a thousand crimes. Centuries later, Honore de Balzac would express a similar sentiment: “Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.” So, what delinquency lies behind Heidi Horten’s private collection of jewelry that was to go under the hammer at Christie’s in May in Geneva? Horten, who died last year, was an art collector and philanthropist who became the richest woman
Counterfeit jewelry worth over $4.41 million seized in Louisville
Louisville Customs & Border Control officers seized 2,400 pieces of fake jewelry shipped from Hong Kong, attempting importation into the United States.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Three shipments of jewelry with counterfeit designer trademarks worth millions of dollars were seized by Louisville officers within 24 hours.
US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in Louisville seized three shipments containing 2,400 pieces of counterfeit jewelry, shipped from Hong Kong, attempting importation into the United States.
On April 3, two of the shipments were heading to the same private residence in Jeffersonville, Indiana, but with different recipient names.
One shipment contained 400 bracelets
The Global Online Jewelry Market is forecast to grow by $36.23 bn during 2022-2027, accelerating at a CAGR of 15.55% during the forecast period
Global Online Jewelry Market 2023-2027. The analyst has been monitoring the online jewelry market and is forecast to grow by $36.23 bn during 2022-2027, accelerating at a CAGR of 15.55% during the forecast period.
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Our report on the online jewelry market provides a holistic analysis, market size and forecast, trends, growth drivers, and challenges, as well as vendor analysis covering around 25 vendors.
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What Happens to Old Jewellery? Explained
Last Updated: March 05, 2023, 16:13 IST
The purity certification assists the consumer in receiving better value while also collateralizing it. (Image: Shutterstock)
Explained: Till now, the old hallmarked jewelery with four marks without HUID was also permitted to be sold by jewelers along with the six-digit HUID mark
The sale of gold jewelery and gold artefacts hallmarked with only a six-digit alphanumeric HUID — union identification number — will be permitted from April 1, the government said on Saturday.
This means the sale of old hallmarked jewelery with four logos without a HUID (Hallmark Unique Identification) number will not
Jewelry store owners clap back at anti-LGBTQ+ lawmakers with “Say Gay” stickers
In Zionsville, Indiana, just north of Indianapolis, the owners of a jewelry store are supporting the LGBTQ+ community with some small but mighty agitprop.
The little stickers, about the size of a silver dollar pancake, shout, “Say Gay.”
Robert and Rose-Marie Goodman felt compelled to print up the custom-designed stickers following the passage of legislation through Indiana’s House of Representatives that would force teachers and administrators in the state to notify parents when their kids change gender or pronoun identities.
House Bill 1608 passed the Indiana House last Thursday.
By Friday, the Goodmans had a cache of 400 stickers on