WITH CRIME NEARING AN ALL-TIME HIGH IN LA, ONLY AN IDIOT WOULD WEAR A $500,000 WATCH IN PUBLIC

3 Arrested After $500,000 Watch Is Stolen Off The Wrist Of Beverly Hills Restaurant Patron

 

LAPPL News Watch

May 13, 2021

  

Rose-gold Richard Mille RM 11-03 Flyback Chronograph 

 

 

Three alleged gang members were arrested in the armed robbery of a man’s $500,000 watch while he was eating lunch outdoors at an Italian restaurant in Beverly Hills, authorities said Wednesday. 

 

A woman was shot in the leg during a struggle over the gun used in the March 4 holdup at Il Pastaio on Canon Drive. 

 

The three suspects, who were arrested Tuesday, were members of the Rollin’ 30s Crips, a South Los Angeles street gang, authorities said. 

 

Malik Lamont Powell, 20, Khai McGhee, 18, and Marquise Anthony Gardon, 30, each face up to 20 years in prison on a federal charge of conspiracy to commit robbery. Two other suspects remain at large. 

 

Police have not yet found the rare wristwatch the men are accused of stealing: a rose-gold Richard Mille RM 11-03 Flyback Chronograph, which is popular with celebrities. 

 

Surveillance video shows the suspects scouting the area around the restaurant before the robbery, according to a court statement by FBI agent Michael Fukuda. Three of the suspects were wearing hoods when they reached the crowded sidewalk terrace where jeweler Shay Belhassen was eating lunch just after 2 p.m. One of them, Fukuda, put a gun to Belhassen’s head and told him: “Give it to me.” Two others yanked Belhassen’s watch from his wrist.