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Stolen jewelry worth $500K recovered, 2 Toronto men arrested by York Regional Police

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Police recover $500K in stolen jewelry, seeking owners

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York Regional Police are asking anyone who may have been robbed to check the Flickr album with photographs of recovered items

The owners of more than $500,000 in stolen jewelry recovered in a distraction theft investigation are being sought by the York Regional Police.

The distraction thefts and robberies that occurred across York Region in June typically involved two suspects in an SUV who would approach elderly victims and engage them in conversation. During the interactions, the suspects would replace the victims’ real jewelry with cheap costume jewelry, police said in a news release. In some instances, they used force

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Thieves steals $500K in jewelry, cash from local store after cutting through the roof

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FAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP, Ohio — Fairfield Twp. are looking for a pair or team of thieves who may have seen one too many heist movies.

Police investigators say the thieves broke into a jewelry store on Hamilton-Middletown Road by cutting through its roof and then stealing around $500,000 worth of jewels and cash.

“It definitely took some time,” said Fairfield Twp. police Sgt. Brandon McCroskey. “They had to have equipment ― saws, etc. ― to cut a hole through the roof, and dropped down through the ceiling into one of the rooms and then stole a large amount of merchandise and

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A Vivid Pink Diamond and a Giant Ruby Both Sold for a Record $35 Million at Sotheby’s

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Sotheby’s and Christie’s sold a combined $158,152,390 worth of jewels this week in New York, in sales that were dominated by spectacular named diamonds (flawless, colored, or huge), along with eye-popping specimens of ruby ​​and sapphire, one of them setting the record for the most valuable gemstones sold at auction. Sotheby’s clocked its highest total for a jewelry auction in New York, at $95.9 million, setting several gemstone price records, and Christie’s hammered at $62,252,390 in its Magnificent Jewels sale, which included the 127-carat Peace Diamond, selling for $13,635,000.

Sotheby’s $95.9-million Magnificent Jewels sale in New York on June 8

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Thieves targets seniors’ jewelry in Naperville shopping centers

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NAPERVILLE, Ill. (CBS) – Naperville police are warning about expensive jewelry being taken right off senior citizens in several shopping center parking lots.

CBS 2’s Charlie De Mar had the details behind this unique scam that is a first, even for seasoned investigators.

Surveillance video starts innocently enough with two women on walkers enjoying some fresh Southern California air last summer.

But then, a car pulls up and the rust begins.

The woman in the white offers a necklace. It’s fake and inexpensive. As she goes to clasp it around the 84-year-old’s neck, she swaps the dupe for a real

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Las Vegas maid stole $768,000 in jewelry from hotel room, police say

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A housekeeper for a Las Vegas hotel was charged for allegedly stealing more than $750,000 worth of jewelry from a room last month, including designer watches, bracelets and necklaces, according to police and court files obtained by The Washington Post.

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department identified Amanda Melendez from housekeeping logs and key card tracking information at Vdara Hotel & Spa, an MGM property on the Strip. Investigators also unearthed a recording of a collect phone call to Melendez from Clark County Detention Center in which she describes the stolen items to an apparent romantic partner in the prison,

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Housekeeper accused of stealing $1M in jewelry from Las Vegas hotel room

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LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – A Las Vegas woman is accused of stealing more than $1 million in jewelry from a hotel room where she worked as a housekeeper.

Amanda Melendez, 27, is accused of residential burglary, grand larceny of more than $100,000 and conspiracy to commit burglary. She is currently out on bail.

According to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department’s report, officers responding to the Vdara Hotel on May 7 for a reported theft.

The alleged victims stated they had ordered housekeeping to clean their room earlier as they left, and when they returned their bags had been

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How did Elizabeth Taylor end up owning the Prince of Wales brooch, something that could’ve belonged to Princess Catherine today?

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Elizabeth Taylor owned the Prince of Wales brooch, but how?

Elizabeth Taylor owned the Prince of Wales brooch, but how?

The Prince of Wales brooch, thought to be a significant piece, would naturally be worn by the likes of Kate Middleton, the current Princess of Wales and wife of Prince William, today. But an oversight on the part of Lord Mountbatten meant that the rare piece of jewelry left the royal vaults when Edward abdicated for Wallis Simpson. And, in a story worthy of a Hollywood telling itself, it somehow ended up in the possession of none other than Elizabeth Taylor.

In Kate Andersen Brower’s authorized biography of Elizabeth Taylor,

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