Three charged with theft after suitcase containing jewellery worth £500k stolen in Birmingham

Police have charged three men after a suitcase containing a quantity of high value jewellery was stolen from Birmingham.

At around 4.45pm on Thursday (February 22) it was reported that thousands of pounds of jewellery, which was involved in a jewellers sale, had been stolen from a vehicle parked on Dudley Road. Police enquiries led officers to West Bromwich where a silver BMW failed to stop for police.

Traffic officers stopped the vehicle on Kendrick Way and detained the driver and two passengers and recovered the jewellery.The three men, aged 50, 56, 57 were subsequently arrested on suspicion of theft from a motor vehicle. 

The suitcase, which contained £500,000 worth of top-end pieces from a parked car, was taken while its owner was on their way to a jeweller's sale.

Now, Miguel Ramirez, aged 56 and Jamie Oropeza Gutierrez, aged 46, both from London and Denis Fonseca Albarracin, aged 57 of no fixed abode, have all been charged with theft from a motor vehicle. Oropeza Gutierrez has also been charged with failing to stop for police and using a vehicle without insurance or a licence.

The three men are scheduled to appear at Birmingham Magistrates Court today (24 Feb).

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The driver was also arrested for dangerous driving and failing to stop.