SANTA FE — Unlike any other medium, jewelry becomes a part of its audience, worn and carried throughout life by its wearer. “I do believe jewelry is the most fundamental form of human art,” said Brian Fleetwood (Mvskoke Creek) in an interview with Hyperallergic. Fleetwood is the curator of The Stories We Carry and assistant professor at the Institute of American Indian Arts. “There is something in us that compels us to adorn ourselves. Jewelry is related to this idea of identity as performance. We put things on our bodies that either project how we want to be seen,
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Ex-con out on bail for prior shooting busted in wild botched jewelry store robbery
An ex-con let out on bail in a Brooklyn shooting allegedly opened fire inside a jewelry store just six months later during a botched robbery that left a worker injured.
Joseph Gonzalez, 45, was arrested Tuesday over the brazen daytime shooting at A&M Jewelry store on Fifth Avenue near 48th Street in Sunset Park, police said.
Gonzalez — who has a lengthy rap sheet and served two previous stints in prison — was out on $75,000 bail in another case of gun violence at the time of the Feb. 5 attempted heists, according to cops and records.
He allegedly fired
Jewelry worth $17,000 recovered after Burlington movers were arrested
Published February 2, 2023 at 2:23 pm
Halton Regional Police have arrested two moving company workers after a family reported $17,000 worth of jewelry was missing after a move.
Police say on Jan. 27 the company was hired to move items from a residence on Philip St. in Burlington to another house.
Once the move was made the family found that two boxes of expensive jewelry were missing.
After investigating, two suspects were identified and arrests were made on Jan. 30.
Charged with theft
Organizer in 2019 jewelry store robbery sentenced
NATIONAL CITY, Calif. – The organizer in an armed robbery of a South Bay jewelry store was sentenced to 96 months in prison, United States Attorney Randy Grossman’s office said in a news release Monday.
Trenelle Cannon, 23, pleaded guilty to one count of Conspiracy to Interfere with Commerce by Robbery in federal court for his involvement in the robbery of the Alpha and Omega Jewelry Store in National City back in 2019.
At around 12:25 pm on March 26, 2019, National City Police Department officials said three masked individuals went into the store
San Diego police arrest 13 suspects in jewelry theft ring, seek more victims
SAN DIEGO —
… More than a dozen suspects have been arrested — and many more are sought — in connection with what San Diego police said Tuesday was a jewelry theft ring that targeted vulnerable people across the region and led to losses estimated in the millions of dollars.
Police said investigators suspected they knew of “only a very small percentage” of thefts, and they asked victims to come forward. They said thieves would approach potential victims, pretend to be in distress, then distract them and swipe the jewelry.
“Detectives discovered thieves targeted specific communities where elderly and people of
Clearwater jewelry maker transforms found items into wearable works of art
Made in Tampa Bay: The Genesis
FOX 13 News
CLEARWATER, Fla. – Jewelry maker Lauralie Bradford has spent years using whatever materials she could find to create new products for her Clearwater-based business The Genesis.
“I would be thrifting. I would be going outside looking for materials,” Bradford said. “I’ve always really believed in trying to use what’s around me and the nature and recycling because there’s so much beauty in this world, and we can actually preserve it and cherish it if we do different things with it that are kind of unexpected. “
She also uses plants and
Victim robbed of more than $500,000 worth of jewelry in Garden Grove
Police are investigating a robbery that occurred in Garden Grove on Thursday, which resulted in more than $500,000 worth of jewelry being stolen.
According to a press release, the incident occurred at around 12:40 pm as victims were transporting the jewelry along the 22 Freeway, having just exited via the Magnolia Avenue offramp. As they stopped at the red light at the end of the ramp, a silver van stopped directly in front of them, at which point three suspects exited the vehicle.
The suspects smashed the rear windows of the victim’s car and took