An international jewelry thief is accused of having slipped two diamond rings worth $ 300,000 from Tiffany and Cartier stores in Manhattan. (Credit: WNYW)
An international jewelry thief – previously accused of having stolen shops in South Korea and California – pleaded guilty to the use of the sleight of hand and other techniques to steal around $ 260,000 in diamonds in Cartier and Tiffany & Co. in New York.
Yaorong Wan, 50, pleaded guilty to a large second degree at the Supreme Court of New York State on Monday. He should be sentenced next month to three and nine years in state prison, according to a press release from the Manhattan District Office, Alvin Bragg.
The international jewelry thief has slid 2 diamond rings worth $ 300,000 from Tiffany, Cartier: Police
“Yaorong Wan used a sleight of hand to pocket $ 260,000 in diamonds from two luxury jewelers,” said the district prosecutor Bragg in a statement. “New York is a world capital of fashion, and we will continue to work with our law enforcement partners to keep Maman-et-Pop stores and high-end retailers.”
Yaorong Wan, 50, pleaded guilty to a large second degree at the Supreme Court of New York State on Monday. (Fox News / Fox News)
On March 4, 2024, Wan stole a diamond ring worth $ 225,000 from the Tiffany & Co. store on the fifth avenue in Manhattan. He went to jewelry to question the employees about several articles – one of them being the diamond ring. While examining the ring, Wan secretly slipped it into his palm and exchanged it with a counterfeit of cubic zirconia. He left the store without buying anything, and an employee unconsciously put the false ring back in the display, according to the Manhattan DA office.
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This file photo of November 27, 2012 shows Tiffany & Co. displayed in Boston. (AP photo / Elise amendola)
A week later, Wan again held her luck in a Cartier store in the Hudson Yards complex. He asked an employee if he could see several jewelry, including two engagement rings. While the employee was distracted, Wan returned only one of the diamond rings instead of two. He slipped the ring, evaluated at around $ 24,000, in his pocket and left the store again without paying, as indicated in the press release.
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File photo: Diamond rings are represented on a black surface. (Getty Images / Getty Images)
In May of last year – two months after setting up flights – Wan was arrested and accused of two Larcin chiefs. At the time of his arrest, he had stop mandates open in New Jersey and in the county of Nassau in Long Island, according to Fox Affiliate, Fox 5 New York.
Wan was also a suspect in flights in Cartier stores in Florida and California, and was wanted in South Korea for having allegedly stolen from high -end jewelry stores, said District Deputy Prosecutor Eliana Ramelson, when she was charged, Fox 5 New York reported.
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