Theft from a Salesman
By AAN Staff
may 14, 2002 01:48 pm
Last year, 231
traveling jewelry
salesmen were
robbed in the U.S.
of goods worth
upward of $30
million. Just since
the start of 2000, 17
San Francisco
salespeople have
been relieved of
more than $6 million, often during what truly are
daring daylight robberies. Most of the Bay Area crimes, law enforcement
authorities say, have been committed by organized
bands of jewelry robbers based in Los Angeles
and composed primarily of illegal aliens from
Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador. The FBI has
dubbed the gangs "South American Theft
Groups," or SATGs. But just because the feds have
created an acronym, SF Weekly's Peter Byrne
discovered, doesn't mean they know how to deal
with the problem.