Pattern: Jewelry Store Theft
Victims: jewelers, department stores
Perpetrators: often teams, often are professional thieves
Locations: jewelry stores and jewelry counters at other types of stores
Times: no specific time pattern
Entry/Approach Methods: may case store, may come in one day and come back another, operate in pairs or more
Weapons: on occasion jewelry store robberies escalate to murder
Tools: burglary tools in burglaries, have been known to smash vehicles into stores to grab items
Vehicles/Transportation Routes: jewelry theft rings travel across jurisdictions
Stolen Goods: jewelry, precious metals
Method: distraction, returning purchases with counterfeit jewels, need a fence for jewelry, smash and grabs, may cut security gates, may disable alarms
Motive: profit
Query Terms: jewelry, gold, diamond, silver, platinum, emerald, ruby, sapphire, pearl, distract, counter, grab, fake
Suggestions: track all jewelry thefts – even residential, looking for patterns, find out where fencing of jewelry may take place, track known criminals of this type
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