San Jose shop theft
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Date: 5/3/2022
Type of Incident: BURGLARY
Incident location: San Jose, CA
Investigating Agency: San Jose PD
Details:
Falcone Jewelry and Coin was burglarized in the early morning hours of May
4,2022. The suspects breached the front door and removed the following items
listed below.
Morgan and Peace dollar BU rolls 95-100
San Jose related collectibles (badges, tokens, medals advertising etc.,)
1892 Columbia World’s Fair collection
Better foreign coins – China, Mexico, Latin America, Russia, Italy, Spain,
Netherlands, Austria, and Canada
European table medals
Rare silver three ounce bars, Englehard(toned).. Tombstone
The victim advises that several shops from Morgan Hill South all the way up to
Napa Valley, CA have been targeted. Law enforcement officials indicated to one
victim that Chilean gangs may be responsible.
Shop owners should be on high alert and review their current security measures.
High resolution cameras should be a priority along with enhanced alarm systems.
Anyone with information contact:
Doug Davis817-723-7231
Doug@numismaticcrimes.org
Comments
It sounds like many of those items are easy to spot. More details on such items, especially photos, should be released.
You had me at San Jose.
Falcons is right across the street from my family's old bldg on Lincoln Ave. It used to be a good neighborhood. I would venture that there is plenty of camera info.
Old Willow Glen.
Sorry to hear the low life's got away with this stuff.
It is happening everywhere; our local coin show had a dealer robbed when he stopped for dinner on his way home about an hour away from the show, they even took his suitcase with his clothes, cleaned him out of everything he had, he said he is done!
Wow... and it is mentioned that there have been several similar burglaries. Looks like a focused effort and they likely have a disposition resource for that type of material. Shop owners be advised. Cheers, RickO
sounds like it was looked over by a scout for the crooks, then they knew what to get and at what time to do the robbery so this was a planned robbery
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Look for new sellers on eBay.
That's another argument for casual sellers to not do coin shows; years ago when I did them displaying lots of precious metals, sales just did not justify my bringing them, rarely are you going to get VIPs with wads of $100 bills to buy at a coin show and if so they will look for low prices. One CT show was getting suspicious people with jaundiced looks coming in and following dealers afterwards.
three steps that are simple to avoid issues
one-use common sense (don't draw notice to yourself)
two- keep at all times aware of your surroundings (look, listen and learn)
three- think like those around you do (very useful in dealing with the public)
it amazes me how many people never follow these rules and then wonder why they got targeted cause they drew notice to themselves, never were watching their surroundings and didn't think like the people around them were
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Plus, you don't want to flash a lot of money or valuables around the public, any one of whom could be a potential thief. Last week I was at the post office where a TV personality was asking about registered mail and what he needed to ship something registered with a lot of value? He could have easily gotten the answer online or with a phone call. Discretion is a vital rule of avoiding thefts.
And my advice
Lordmarcovan, WTCG, YogiBerraFan, Phoenin21, LindeDad, Coll3ctor, blue594, robkoll, Mike Dixon, BloodMan, Flakthat and others.
rule #1 is rarely followed as well as the rest and that lands people in messes that could be avoided
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