{"id":115607,"date":"2026-01-28T22:03:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T22:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/115607\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T22:03:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T22:03:24","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-brooklyn-man-pleads-guilty-for-his-involvement-in-jewelry-burglaries-in-11-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/115607\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Brooklyn man pleads guilty for his involvement in jewelry burglaries in 11 states"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 55-year-old Brooklyn man faces five years in prison after pleading guilty for his involvement in buying and selling stolen jewelry across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Salim Sakal pleaded guilty before a judge in Bridgeport on Tuesday, according to the Connecticut District Attorney&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors say Sakal bought and sold stolen jewelry from seven burglaries between May 2023 and April 2024.<\/p>\n<p>They say the case is connected to an organized theft ring of Colombian nationals who stole $4.4 million worth of jewelry from stores and kiosks in malls across 11 states \u2013 including Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement officials say none of the stolen jewelry has been recovered.<\/p>\n<p>Sakal has agreed to pay $2.4 million in restitution jointly with other convicted individuals.<\/p>\n<p>Sentencing is set for April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 55-year-old Brooklyn man faces five years in prison after pleading guilty for his involvement in buying and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,10394,212,18648,32688,51240,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-115607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-burglaries","tag-burglary","tag-jewelry","tag-jewelry-stolen","tag-jewelry-store","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}