Kyle Lowry Was Robbed as Part of a Crazy Philly Jewelry Ring
NBA All-Star, former Villanovan, and National Champion aficionado Kyle Lowry, who lives on the Main Line and practices at Villanova during the summer, had his house robbed of an undisclosed sum of jewlery (probably a fuckton) as part of a Philly jewelry theft ring, CBS Philly reports:
CBS 3 watched as a team of investigators sorted through hundreds of pieces of jewelry inside V Jewelers in the 700 block of Sansom Street.
The scope of a multi-million dollar burglary ring that police say had its base at a store on Jewelers’ Row, stretched across the Delaware Valley.
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The Main Line home of Toronto Raptors’ Kyle Lowry was hit, police sources said.
Responding to an email from CBS3, a spokesman for the Raptors said Lowry, a former Villanova basketball standout, politely declined comment for this story.
Detectives said the connection to Jewelers Row was through a man identified as Wasim Shazad, owner and operator of V Jewelers.
Police said the store amounted to a front, where millions of dollars of stolen jewelry was moved, resold or melted down. Shazad is described in court papers as “the fence” of the criminal organization. Each defendant is charged with a slew of felony counts, including a corrupt organizations charge.
I literally just assumed that every store on Jewelers’ Row was a front for some sort of illegal operation, so color me surprised that it’s, like, news when that’s actually the case. I feel like stepping into the back room of any of those places would yield a sort of Eyes Wide Shut Pandora’s Box of unspoken underground sex parties, drug rings, slave trade, or cigar smoke-filled rooms where the prices of commodities for all mankind are determined by men in goat masks. Baaaaa baaaa corn is $2 baaaaaa. A simple jewelry melting pot is almost disappointing in its banality.
In happier news for Lowry, here’s a video Villanova put together recapping his return to campus to be honored earlier this season: