Dropped phone during US$2.6mil jewellery heist leads to three arrests in California, feds say

Vernon dropped his cellphone during the robbery and police ran a DNA profile on it, which was a match, the complaint says. Police also got search warrants for the men’s phones and discovered they were all together near the crime scene, the complaint says. — Photo by Rami Al-zayat on Unsplash

A man dropped his phone during a US$2.6mil (RM12.09mil) jewellery heist in California, leading to three arrests, federal prosecutors said.

Long Beach residents Jimmy Lee Vernon III, 31, Ladell Tharpe, 37, and Deshon Bell, 20, were indicted on Oct 5 by a federal grand jury on charges of conspiracy and interference with commerce by robbery, the US Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California said in a news release.