GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (via WOOD TV 8) — A pair of Ohio men accused of stealing from jewelry stores in several areas, including West Michigan, will be sentenced in federal court.
But one of the men was also recently sentenced for threatening a detective, according to court documents.
A federal indictment lays out the scheme used by 27-year-old Demetrius Eugene Woodson and 28-year-old Rosean Levell Rogers. Records show the duo started last May and were caught in September.
Police say the pair traveled state to state. One of them would distract employees while the others switched out real diamonds for cubic zirconia, police said.
In May, they got $7,000 from a store in Holland, Ohio. The duo then went to Jared locations in Fort Wayne, Lexington, Mishawaka and near Cleveland, where they netted more than $80,000 in diamonds, according to federal authorities.
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