Joint Effort Takes Down Detroit-Based Robbery Group

But Smash and Grab Jewelry Store Incidents are on the Rise

02/27/15

Today, the FBI and its partners announced three separate indictments filed during the past month against 17 individuals from the metropolitan Detroit area who are believed to be responsible for a number of \”smash and grab\” robberies of jewelry stories in a half-dozen states. The charges, filed in federal court in the Eastern District of Michigan, involved violations of the Hobbs Act, which makes it a crime to obstruct, delay, or affect interstate commerce by robbery.

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