A federal grand jury has indicted four people on suspicion of participating in or selling goods in an armed robbery at a jewelry store in Denver in June, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado said Wednesday.
Denver police said in June: Eight people were wanted for a robbery at Joyerias El RubyPolice say the suspected robbers stole more than $2 million worth of jewelry. At least some of it was armed with weaponsshowed surveillance footage. An indictment released on Wednesday by a federal grand jury accuses Oswaldo Lozada-Solis (23), Jesus Daniel Lara Del Toro (20) and Jean Franco Torres-Roman (21) of participating in the robbery, and Edwuimar Nazareth Colina-Romero (18) of selling stolen goods. All four are Venezuelan citizens, according to the US Attorney’s Office.
Few details were immediately available, but Lozada-Solis, Del Toro and Torres-Roman are charged with robbery and use of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. Colina-Romero is charged with transportation of stolen goods and sale or receipt of stolen goods. They were arrested in El Paso, Texas, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
“The defendants, in the presence of an employee of Joyeria El Ruby, against his will and with the help of actual and threatened physical violence and out of fear of injury to a person, unlawfully took and obtained jewelry and aided, abetted, advised, ordered, instigated and procured the same,” the indictment states.
Specifically, Colina-Romero is accused of bringing jewelry she knew was stolen to New Mexico in an attempt to sell it.
The three defendants, who brandished firearms, face at least seven years, up to life, in a federal prison if convicted. Colina-Romero faces up to ten years in prison.
The jewelry store’s owners declined to comment for this article, but described their experiences in previous CBS News Colorado reports.
Denver police referred questions to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado, whose spokesman declined to comment beyond the attorney general’s press release. The Department of Homeland Security did not respond to a request for comment.
Messages seeking comment were left from attorneys for Lozada-Solis and Torres-Roman. Del Toro is represented by a federal public defender.
Colina-Romero’s Denver-based attorney declined to comment on the case by phone Wednesday.
