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Anger as suspect in $100M jewelry heist said to be biggest in US history avoids standing trial – because ICE deported him (www.independent.co.uk)

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Last month, federal officials allegedly deported one of the suspects in a massive 2022 jewelry heist in Southern California where thieves made off with $100 million in merchandise, in what prosecutors have called the largest jewelry heist in U.S. history.

Jeson Nelon Presilla Flores was sent to Ecuador on or about December 29, according to court documents obtained by The Los Angeles Times. He was believed to be linked to a raid on a Brinks truck that netted a fortune in stolen jewels, gold and watches.

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[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 9 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Did he get sent to that hell-hole Equadorian prison though? That'd be a massive self-own.

[–] bossito@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I think you're mixing it with El Salvador

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 4 points 5 days ago

You could be right. It's hard to keep up with the horrors.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Ecuador's prisons are run by gangs. It's a different kind of hell hole. Lots of murder in there (by prisoners. In El Salvador, it's the guards that do the torture and murder)

[–] Lucelu2@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

there are a lot of different places in Ecuador. He can leave for the countryside. Buy a plantation and build a nice little compound. You think Ecuadorean Government officials can't be bought off?

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 points 3 days ago

You're basically describing the current president of Ecuador

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