The thieves were careful. Trailing a Brink’s big rig on Interstate 5 in the San Joaquin Valley, the seven men used burner phones so their signals couldn’t be traced to them.

At a truck stop along the Grapevine, they pulled off what is believed to be the biggest jewelry heist in U.S. history and vanished into the predawn dark. ×

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