{"id":110794,"date":"2026-01-08T19:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T19:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/110794\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T19:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T19:49:07","slug":"cape-coral-thieves-lay-in-wait-for-manager-grab-jewelry-from-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/110794\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Coral thieves lay in wait for manager, grab jewelry from safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">FORT MYERS, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; A man from South Florida faces federal charges in connection with a jewelry heist in Cape Coral Jan. 6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office in Fort Myers says Ivel Sanchez Rivera, 52, of Hialeah has been charged with conspiracy and interference with commerce by robbery and use and brandishing of a firearm during a crime of violence. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Prosecutors say two armed suspects broke into the Tio Jewelers in Cape Coral from an adjacent vacant business space after hours. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">When the jewelry store manager arrived, the robbers forced him to open a safe. The suspects took a large amount of jewelry and two firearms from the store before leaving in a getaway vehicle driven by a third suspect later identified as Sanchez Rivera.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Cape Coral Police believe said Sanchez Rivera had driven the car to the area of the jewelry store the night before and then immediately returned to Miami following the robbery. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A search warrant was executed at Sanchez Rivera\u2019s residence and two firearms were recovered, including a firearm that was taken from the jewelry store manager during the robbery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">If convicted, Sanchez Rivera faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison for the conspiracy offense and a consecutive 7 years in federal prison for the firearm offense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; A man from South Florida faces federal charges in connection with a jewelry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[33752,209,211,210,7561,9058,56486,14040],"class_list":["post-110794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-coral","tag-jewelry","tag-rivera","tag-robbery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}