Michigan man sentenced for smash-and-grab at St. Louis County jewelry store
A man from the Detroit, Michigan, area appeared in federal court on Monday and was sentenced months for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of watches from an Ellisville, Missouri, jewelry store, approximately two months after a co-defendant was sentenced for the same crime.
ST. LOUIS – A man from the Detroit, Michigan, area appeared in federal court on Monday and was sentenced months for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of watches from an Ellisville, Missouri, jewelry store, approximately two months after a co-defendant was sentenced for the same crime.
Prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Missouri said Kordaryl Cross, 35, and Dajuan Marcellus, 34, planned to use a stolen vehicle to travel to Ellisville in order to steal several Rolex watches.
Marcellus said he purchased a pre-paid Visa gift card on Jan. 2, 2023, which Cross used eight days later to buy sledgehammers at a store in Missouri.
Cross and Marcellus, along with two other men, stole a Dodge Ram truck in Brentwood and drove to Ellisville. Marcellus and one of the unidentified cohorts broke into the jewelry store and used the sledgehammers to bust open the glass cases containing Rolex watches. Cross monitored the time during the robbery.
The group abandoned the truck in a nearby parking garage, and Marcellus and Cross took the watches to Illinois.
Cross and Marcellus pleaded guilty over the summer to conspiracy to commit interstate transportation of stolen property.
On Monday, a U.S. District Court judge sentenced Cross to 57 months in federal prison. Marcellus was sentenced in October to 37 months in federal prison. Both Cross and Marcellus were ordered to pay $344,300 in restitution to the jeweler.
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