How I Stole $300 Million in Rare Diamonds | Informer

I'm a former Junkie I was dissipated in 300 dual Heist smashing grabs burglaries opening the vaults to shakes robbing stealing anywhere from two or three million to five million dollars diamonds Diamond Jewelry finished goods I would walk into a jewelry store and Rob it I'm just going to smash the display places with hammers and crowbars [Music] or if you got to be a murderer I was addicted to the actual part of doing the Hoist that was my dopamine hit I can't explain to you how amazing it is if you experience opening a wall and you become an instant lawyer I just didn't wake up one morning and decided to be a criminal I was born into this I've been in and out of prison more than you could count I always knew how to enable the system I was making a lot of money doing these crimes they invited me to open the safe deposit boxes in this hotel on Park Avenue this is a hotel for the ultra wealthy we went in there like two o'clock at night we were all dressed in tuxedos we had the Groucho Maps glasses with the mustache and those are the stars you just move people and we just like ladies and gentlemen you guys are going to be free and all time just don't worry about nothing my job was to go into the bathroom we had to save deposit boxes and I opened 30 40 boxes and I took the most money ever that's on a lot of cars found a lot of diamonds that you want to believe all the air foreign [Music] [Music] there was no investigation those people didn't want to have anything investigated they did not cooperate with the authorities and that saved their asses they looked hard and I play hard it's a lot of money going on living in hotels outlet lavishly and I'll go on vacations the book yards I'll run Lamborghinis don't spend money faster than you can give it to me upon is the most important thing for a team it doesn't take more than a minute to do a house you're always like I showed you you know when you're opening a safe you would use all the tools that you use to like look inside the body step your school small cameras James Bond equipment basically you know it inside information is what makes this system work flawlessly and this could be anybody this could be your security specialist your need your front dust from the hotel this could be a doormat there was this one Heist who was working with Knuckleheads this is a jewelry manufacturing Manhattan midtown what happened is the news but gear to open the safe and we started cutting it and how this works and it starts smoking and this is a deterrent to thieves like us since walks was just pumping out a lot of and block smoke while we were burning the safe and they have like 10 bottles of oxy acetylene that you need to open the safe the lava that fell fell on the wall in the world went on fire before between uncontainable and upon leaving while the firefighters were coming towards the building the bottles blew up it was a mess at night time you would steal the diamonds during the day we saw the diamonds back in the same district regarded a lot of profit from Trading diamonds but also this is what gave me information because if I would go to your dining place so I'll see you safe I'll see your ball and so I could rob you too so you're continuity [Music] it's real criminal you've been encounter scumbags you're encounter with guys that are divorced because God you have dogs or anything I was doing a heist with these two guys that never did Ice before this Bethany job to make money I was like all right what's going on meanwhile I didn't know that they were in kahoot with one of my enemies they set me up and I'm with these two guys at their place in New Jersey buying a man he walks through the door and he's like hey how you doing my brother I love you don't worry about anything it hugs me but when he hugs me he puts me in a headlock and he chose me to death almost while these guys are slapping handcuffs on me and duct taping me they wanted me to give them a bunch of the heist that I Was preparing they took my keys and I had the keys to their own dining District I got duct tape on my feet and my legs two rolls of duct tape around my neck or all my strings around my body like they're gonna dump me in the river somewhere like you know why else would they do that [Music] but now I leave because I want to go get a firearm a pistol and I come back to my office where they were going to rob but you know what if I did find them there I would have probably killed them I would have murdered them I would have probably did something drastic not logical thinking but uh I couldn't retaliate because I got arrested because I was on probation so that sends me Upstate New York for the next 15 years I was out of commission [Music] I was criminally insane I must have been out of my mind to do these things if I see a jewelry store I do the heist like that's the way my mind works if I would have to change something in my life and go back I wouldn't I think I lived a pretty full life you know and I took chances but I'm a product of my own Society of my own neighborhood

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Id: 85EROW8QBh8

Length: 6min 53sec (413 seconds)

Published: Tue May 09 2023