For leading a robbery and extortion gang Hector Rivera has been sentenced to 32 years of imprisonment that targeted diamond jewelry business and shipments in Manhattan's Diamond District. Rivera was also asked by U.S. district judge Harold Baer Jr., to pay $2.93 million of criminal proceeds.
From 2003 to December 2009, Rivera controlled the operations primarily in the Diamond. The November 29, 2005, theft of a diamond business located at 580 5th Avenue in Manhattan was amongst the precised crimes proven at trial in which two armed men entered the business wearing the outfit of Federal Express delivery workers and passed a gun deliver ed by Rivera. This robbery has led to the loss of valuable jewels like engagement rings as well.
The other crime intended by Rivera, on the night of December 20, 2007, in the surrounding area of 48th Street and 11th Avenue in Manhattan, two men demonstrating firearms and police badges had come up to the driver of a FedEx tractor-trailer believed to contain several million dollars worth of diamonds. It was found that the driver was taken away from the FedEx truck at gunpoint, handcuffed, and kidnapped. It was found that the FedEx truck which was driven to a loading dock in Brooklyn. The defendants were incapable to unpack the filling of the truck; it was taken to a different location and was dumped.
Investigators closely scrutinized, telephonic conversations were recorded and personal face to face meeting between Rivera and a cooperating witness was conducted, to put together the case against Rivera.
The successful attempt of the FBI and the New York City Police Department was appreciated by Preet Bharara, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.
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