A Tennessee man has been arrested and charged with scamming a Boston store by using movie prop cash to pay for $160,000 in jewelry.
Devin Johnson, 20, of Cordova, Tennessee, was arraigned July 22 in Boston on one count of larceny over $1,200 in connection with the April incident, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office.
On April 23, two men went to a jewelry store on Temple Place in Downtown Crossing and purchased multiple high-end items, including a rose gold and diamond bracelet worth $15,000, a rose gold and diamond chain worth $50,000, a Rolex Presidential 40mm watch worth $45,000, a Rolex Datejust watch worth $23,000 and a gold and diamond tennis chain worth $30,000, according to the DA’s office. They paid $160,000 in cash.
Two days later, when store employees op