Raiders escaped with watches and jewelry worth at least $10m from the Love Jewels store in downtown Los Angeles in April. That was after they'd spent weeks tunneling their way through 3ft thick concrete, from an empty theater building next door. They struck over a weekend, and it was only when staff arrived for work on Monday morning that they found the safes empty, and the alarms and cameras disabled

In August 2024 a gang broke into Marquise Jewelers, at a mall in Schaumburg, Illinois. They forced the back door of a Sbarro restaurant, broke through a dividing wall into an empty unit next door, then broke through another wall into the jewelry store.