By Gary Meyer, TME

Hundred-million-dollar jewel thefts are usually pulled off amidst the lavish luxury of European museums, hotels, diamond districts and Parisian jewelry stores.

But a truck stop in Lebec?

Laugh if you must, but the July 11 jewelry theft from a Brink’s U.S. truck at Flying J is among the world’s…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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The Carlton Hotel in Cannes, France where a single thief walked into an exhibit and stole $136M worth of diamonds and gems in 2013

The Green Vault museum in Dresden, Germany, where $135M in jewels were stolen in 2019

The Antwerp, Belgium, heist in 2003 was, for a time, the largest jewel heist in history at over $100M.

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