Man Charged in Theft of $177,000 Earrings
A Hawthorne man was charged Tuesday with a Jan. 3 jewel theft but police are still looking for the diamond earrings--worth $177,000--they believe he stole from a store.
Joseph Jackson, 37, was arrested on a parole warrant Sunday afternoon and booked into the Santa Ana city jail. Jackson was formally charged with grand theft and burglary.
Jackson’s parole officer identified him Jan. 19 after seeing a television news program about the robbery at Saks Fifth Avenue, said Orange County Sheriff Michael Carona.
Investigators say the thief asked to see the earrings and snatched them from a saleswoman’s hands before running out a nearby door into a parking lot.
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