Cops: 'Pink Panther gang' jewel thieves nabbed
Balkans-based group is suspected of stealing $134 million in series of heists
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PARIS - Two suspected members of the "Pink Panther gang" of jewel thieves were arrested in Monaco after a car crash, police said on Friday.
The gang is believed to have stolen $134 million in various countries.
Interpol said the suspects were Dusko Poznan, 30, from Bosnia-Herzegovina, and an unnamed 27-year-old Serbian, and belonged to the Balkans-based "Pink Panther gang."
In 2004, the group hid a several-hundred-thousand-dollar diamond ring in a jar of face cream — the same place used in the first Pink Panther film, starring Peter Sellers as the bungling Inspector Clousseau.
One of the men was arrested in the hospital Wednesday by a police officer who took his statement following the crash. The second was arrested afterward.
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