Over a period of three months, an employee of a store in Miami’s jewelry district, allegedly stole more than $100,000 worth of small jewelry items, which she later sold to a pawn shop.
The jewelry store’s owner initially detected the disappearances in September, which led to a review of store surveillance footage revealing the employee’s suspicious behavior. According to WSVN (VIDEO INCLUDED), 45-year-old Nubia Milena Torres-Cubillos, a Colombian national living in Miami, was captured on camera several times between June and August rearranging boxes of jewelry in the store’s back room while “systematically removing pieces of high-value jewelry in small amounts to avoid detection.” At one point, she is seen “walking unnaturally in an effort to avoid the links making noise,” the police report states.
Amongst the pawned items, detectives found multiple pieces of high-value jewelry, including a series of 18K yellow gold Van Cleef style bracelets and a necklace with an emerald stone, each pawned for fractions of their worth. The arrest led to charges against Torres-Cubillos of grand theft, an organized scheme to defraud, and other related offenses.
Two Men Break Into Connecticut Mall Jeweler, Steal $10,000 Worth of Goods
Two masked men dressed in black entered Banter Jewelry inside the Brass Mill Center shopping mall in Waterford, CT, on Saturday night and allegedly stole about $10,000 worth of jewelry from the kiosk after shattering its glass jewelry cases with a hammer, and then fleeing. Full report at News 8 WTNH.
Honoring a Legacy: How Smith & Son Jewelers Exceeded Every Goal With Wilkerson
When Andrew Smith decided to close the Springfield, Massachusetts location of Smith & Son Jewelers, the decision came down to family. His father was retiring after 72 years in the business, and Andrew wanted to spend more time with his children and soon-to-arrive grandchildren.
For this fourth-generation jeweler whose great-grandfather founded the company in 1918, closing the 107-year-old Springfield location required the right partner. Smith chose Wilkerson, and the experience exceeded expectations from start to finish.
"Everything they told me was 100% true," Smith says. "The ease and use of all their tools was wonderful."
The consultants' knowledge and expertise proved invaluable. Smith and his father set their own financial goal, but Wilkerson proposed three more ambitious targets. "We thought we would never make it," Smith explains. "We were dead wrong. We hit our first goal, second goal and third goal. It was amazing."
Smith's recommendation is emphatic: "I would never be able to do what they did by myself."
