How a Craigslist mastermind helped orchestrate jewel heists from prison
On July 7, 2013, a Middle Eastern man boarded a flight from Los Angeles to Oakland. He was bearing a 4-carat diamond worth $175,000, as well as two smaller, 2-carat gems, intending to sell them in Oakland to a man he'd met over Craigslist. The buyer paid for his plane ticket and also a limo, which picked him up at the airport and drove him to a location in El Cerrito, Calif., just north of Oakland.
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