Diamond Thieves

NEW YORK: THREE MEN PULL A “HEAT” LIKE ROBBERY OF $5 MILLION IN CASH AND DIAMONDS

Three men, who robbed $5 million in cash, diamonds, jewelry, coins and baseball cards from safe deposit boxes in two nighttime heists, were arrested by the NYPD and the FBI. According to multiple news sources, the men were arrested Tuesday (July 26) after a “painstaking” investigation.

 

New York Police Department Commissioner William J. Bratton said that the heists “resembled scenes from the movie ‘Heat’ — the work of a crew that was well organized, meticulous, and elusive to law enforcement”.

 

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said the burglars used the darkness of night in an April attack against an HSBC Bank in Brooklyn and a May break-in at the Maspeth Federal Savings Bank in Queens to blowtorch their way through roofs and into the vaults of the banks.

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