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Theft from a Salesman

By AAN Staff
may 14, 2002  01:48 pm
Theft from a Salesman
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.
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