US EditionDriver gets 7 years in smash-and-grab at Beverly Hills jewelry store
- Three men have been jailed for a $2.6 million heist at a Beverly Hills jewelry store, where they used sledgehammers and crowbars during the robbery, according to California authorities.
- A cell phone dropped by one of the robbers provided investigators with a clue about the crime, as stated by the US Department of Justice.
- Ladell Tharpe, Jimmy Lee Vernon, and Deshon Bell have received prison sentences for their roles in the robbery, with Tharpe receiving seven years, Vernon six years and eight months, and Bell one year.
- Acting United States Attorney Joseph McNally emphasized that 'brazen criminal action that directly targets our small businesses in Los Angeles County will not be tolerated.
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Driver gets 7 years in smash-and-grab at Beverly Hills jewelry store
A Long Beach man who served as the getaway driver for a smash-and-grab robbery at a Beverly Hills jewelry store was sentenced to seven years in federal prison. Ladell Tharpe, 39, who pleaded guilty to interference with commerce by robbery in September, was also ordered to pay nearly $2.7 million in restitution, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a news release. That figure aligns with the value of the merchandise stolen in 2022 when Tharpe a…
Man sentenced to 7 years for Beverly Hills smash-and-grab robbery
One of the men behind a smash-and-grab robbery in Beverly Hill was sentenced to seven years in federal prison, the Department of Justice announced Monday. Ladell Tharpe of Long Beach pleaded guilty last September after he and his accomplices, two men and a minor, drove three cars to a jewelry store on South Beverly Drive and used sledgehammers and crow bars to break the display cases before making away with more than $2.6 million worth of jewelr…
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