jewel heists

Doris Payne: From dirt-poor to the world's most famous jewel thief

🍷 By 1975, Doris Payne had been stealing precious diamonds around the globe for several decades. But when the 44-year-old set her sights on her latest target, the world-famous Bulgari jeweler...

✤ NYPD has identified 2 possible Diamond District thieves

Two of the three bandits wa𒁃nted for pulling off a brazen $4 million jewelry heist in Manhattan’s Diamond District are known to the NYPD — and investigators beliღeve they've ID'ed... 

🍌 How a dapper🦋 crook and pals pulled off a $4M Diamond District heist

Drꩵamatic video released by the NYPD on Monday shows the moment a dapper robber pulled out a pistol during a $4 million heist in a Diamond District jewelry store that’s...

Video♈ shows trio of robbers during brazen midday Diam꧙ond District heist

✤ New video shows a trio of armed robbers who held up a jewelry store in the heart of Manhattan's Diamond District in a brazen stickup on Sunday afternoon. The 14-second...

Sapphire stolen two decades ago in Italy now at 🍨center of Manhattan lawsuit 𒊎

The sleight of hand was as stunning as the stolen sapphire. No one knows how the 65-c𒁃arat gem, inlaid in a dazzling art-deco diamond-and-sapph✤ire Cartier bracelet, disappeared 22 years ago...

How eight 'bad grandpas' pulled off a daring $20 million jewel heist

Some senior citizens with too much time on their hands pick up bocce or dominoes as a hobby. And then there are the “Bad Grandpas”: Eight old men w🙈ho pulled...

Armed robbers swipe $390K in jewelry, other loot from ritzy Paris⛎ hotel

A pair of armed robbers snagged more than $390,000 in jewelry and other loot from a historic Paris hotel early Thursday. The hooded duo barged into the Penins🐎ula Hotel on...

Man who pulled Swedish royal jewel hওeist gets 4½ years

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — A ও22-year-old Swede has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison after he wa𝓀s convicted of stealing royal funeral artifacts said to be worth...

 Ric🍃h New Yorkers nev♛er realized an infamous jewel thief lived next door

To at leไast one of his West Fourth Street neighbors, Damir Pejcinovic was regarded as “Damian from The Bronx, a guy who made it and now lives in the Village.”... 🙈

The moment thief steal♉s $97K w✃orth of Diamond District jewels

Surveillance footage from inside a Diamond District store shows just how easy🐲 it is to swipe tens of thousands of dollars in jewelry. At Rafaello & Co. on West 47th...

Saudi princess robbed of $1M in jewelry during wedding weekend🅺

An extravagant Saudi wedding in Paris thꦺat was attended ꧃by Oprah Winfrey and her best friend Gayle King quickly turned to disaster for one princess after $1 million worth of...

Crooks caught on came🌼ra nabbing jewelry worth $100K

Surveillance footage shows two desperate thieves shoꦡoting and kiꩵcking a locked jewelry store's door in Chinatown -- and getting away with $100,000 worth of gold and gems. The crooks walked...

Saudi princess robbed of $900K in jewe🅷♒lry at the Ritz

A Saudi princess had more than $900,000 in jewelry swiped from her ro💛om at a swanky Parisian hotel, French police said Monday. The unidentified member of the royal family had...

Thieves swipe priceless crown jewel🅠s from Swedish 🌠cathedral

 It was a heiꦅst fit for Hollywood. Two royal crowns -- both belonging to a former king and queen of Sweden -- were swiped from a centuries-old cathedral on Tu⛄esday...

Hammer-wielding man robs Brooklyn jewelry s🐬tore

A thief us🌸ed a hammer to hold up a Boerum Hill jewelry store Wednesday, where he forced workers into a back room before looting the plac⛦e, cops said. The man,...

Williဣamsburg jewelry shop robbed of $300K

A high-end hipster Williamsburg jewelry shop found itself the scene of an old-school Brooklyn heist to the tune of $300,000 Thursday morning, according to law enforcement sources. Catbird, a self-desc🔯ribed... 

Police hunt for 'Pink Panthers' thief behind $2.7M jewel heist

Police are hunting for an elusive "Pink Panthers" thief for allegedly swiping more than $2.7 milဣlion worth of diamond rings in London in what police are calling an "audacious thef💟t,"...

💛 Duo swipe $95,000 necklace from Midtown gallery 

A Bonnie-and-Clyde duo swiped a $95,000 ne💎cklace from a posh Midtown shop, police sources said Monday. An employee at the Lloyds International Gallery on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan told cops...

Armed robberꦡs steal millions in jewels in Ritz Hotel he🌞ist

 PARIS — French police say that five thieves, some of them armed, have entered the luxury Ri🍌tz Hotel in Paris and stolen goods, likely jewels, worth "an im🐓portant sum." The...

Crafty thieves s♐wipe millions in jewelry from Italian pal🦂ace 

A slick crew of thieves stole millions of dollars’ worth of Indian jewelry inꦚ broad daylight from an exhibit at a palace in Venice, Italy. A brooch and a pair...