An out-of-towner is accused of utilizing movie-prop pretend payments to purchase $160,000 in jewellery from a Downtown Crossing store.
Tennessee man Devin Johnson, 20, has been charged in reference to the high-end jewellery heist.
“The facts here outline an incredibly audacious scheme to purchase real jewelry—and hugely expensive jewelry at that—with phony money, which eventually came undone through thorough, tenacious work by Boston police detectives,” Suffolk DA Kevin Hayden stated in a press release.
“These suspects, like so many others, may have thought they got away with something,” Hayden added. “Like so many others, they thought wrong.”
Boston Law enforcement officials in April responded to a Temple Place jewellery store, the place they discovered that two males had bought quite a few gadgets.
These gadgets included a rose gold and diamond bracelet price $15,000, a rose gold and diamond chain price $50,000, a Rolex Presidential 40mm watch price $45,000, a Rolex Datejust watch price $23,000, and a gold and diamond tennis chain price $30,000.
The lads paid $160,000 in obvious money.
When retailer personnel later eliminated the cash from a secure and put it by means of a cash counter, they found that it was counterfeit.
Detectives acknowledged the payments to be just like these used on film units. The payments had “In Prop We Trust” written on them.
Police finally recognized Johnson and the second man by means of video surveillance from the store and the Downtown Crossing space, together with photos of the rental white Ford Bronco secured below the second man’s identify.
Detectives additionally tracked social media websites utilized by the 2 males, which confirmed stills and video of each of them displaying gadgets an identical to these bought from the Temple Place jewellery store. On one website, the second suspect displayed a rose-colored watch, tagged Johnson, and posted, “We made history bro.”
Police then obtained arrest warrants in June.
Johnson was arraigned final month on one depend of larceny over $1,200.
He was launched on private recognizance and ordered to steer clear of the incident location. He’s set to return to court docket on Sept. 23 for a pre-trial listening to. The second suspect has but to be arraigned.
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