On April 11, Walton County Sheriff’s Office investigated an incident of three individuals, two females and one male, entering a store on 30A, stealing multiple pieces of jewelry with a value of over a million dollars. Deputies say the three then left in a black SUV.
A woman told investigators she had given three people a ride from the area, who claimed their car had broken down. Detectives with NYPD, as well as an officer in the United Kingdom, told deputies the group was part of a Romanian criminal network with more than 1,400 members in the United States with warrants in more than half a dozen states.