In a carefully planned overnight heist, thieves cut through a safe and stole more than $1.3 million worth of jewelry from a store outside Chicago, the store owner said.
The burglars worked for nearly five hours during the night of May 9-10, 2025, disabling Internet service to the entire office complex where Rick Kleinvehn Diamond Brokers in South Barrington, Illinois, is located before breaking into the store, according to store owner Rick Kleinvehn.
South Barrington is about 45 minutes outside Chicago.
“They used a wet saw, and the interior where the safe was became all slushy, muddy, just kind of a goo on the floor from them cutting for hours and hours through that steel,” Kleinvehn told ABC News. “They had buckets, and they were filling buckets and pouring it on the hot metal.”
This is why I can’t do crime. There are to many folks willing to do it for way less. I was just thinking that at most they get half value and then its split between however many. No thank you.
They’ll get like 10x that if they know someone who won’t melt it down for the materials. Resale on jewelry is uniquely awful
I really doubt they will get over value on hot jewels.
I don’t know how much stolen property usually goes for, but I guessed less than half of resale, which is usually like a fourth of original price. 12, 4, 2. Could be less. I genuinely have no frame of reference.