Feds: Washington D.C. thieves stole $32,000 worth of Gucci from Wrentham store

A wanna-be mannequin and three of his buddies drove up from Washington, D.C., to tear off the Gucci retailer in Wrentham, a brand new federal indictment alleges — however the feds add they left a string of surveillance video and self-incriminating social media posts.

Three of the 4 suspects have been charged in a federal indictment filed final week with conspiracy and transporting greater than $5,000 in stolen items. Linworth Hayes Crawford III, 28; Ronald Patterson, 32; and Nathaniel Owens, 32, will seem in federal court docket in Boston at a later date to face these costs.

On Sept. 17, 2021, police have been alerted to a housebreaking alarm sounding just a little earlier than 12:30 a.m. at Suite 545 within the Wrentham Village Premium Outlets mall — the Gucci retailer. The entrance glass had been smashed in and video surveillance confirmed 4 males entered. An worker accounting the following day confirmed that $32,000 of the “high-end” clothes had been stolen.

But, in keeping with the FBI affidavit that particulars the alleged crime, this may not have been one of many crew’s first bash.

Special Agent Geoffrey Kelly says that he’s been monitoring a collection of business burglaries within the japanese U.S. on shops carrying luxurious manufacturers — together with Gucci, Burberry, Canada Goose and Moose Knuckles — since way back to Oct. 12, 2020.

“Based on the method of operation of the subjects responsible for these commercial burglaries,” he wrote within the affidavit, “I believe that these burglaries are all connected.”

Patterson was shortly suspected on this Gucci housebreaking, in keeping with the affidavit, as investigators have been tying him to comparable burglaries and his tendency to record premium manufacturers on the market on his OfferUp account “RJ_dont_play” in addition to on social media, and all the time of luxurious items that match these misplaced in current thefts.

That consists of on the very day the Gucci retailer job went down, when Patterson on his Instagram account — a footnote right here says “It appears Patterson was trying to be a model” — “posted images of the bags for sale, which appeared to be identical to the Gucci bags stolen during the burglary.”

The affidavit then goes on to offer an in depth accounting of how the suspects’ telephones tracked their actions up — after which after the theft, again down — the Eastern Seaboard between the 2 cities.

Along the best way, Patterson allegedly posted little travelogues to his Instagram account, which as of Tuesday afternoon had been deleted. Even when he tried to disguise the place he was — “New Jersey,” blazed a caption of a video that includes a Waffle House within the background, which is a state with out the restaurant chain — investigators used background particulars to suss out the crew’s whereabouts, in keeping with the affidavit narrative.