Cobb County police have issued an arrest warrant for a man linked by DNA to a 2010 million dollar diamond heist at a Kennesaw jewelry store.
According to the warrant, filed last week in Cobb Magistrate Court, Osniel Labrada-Guillen burglarized the Diamonds R Forever store on Wade Green Road on Jan. 14, 2010, by cutting the phone lines to the store, then cutting a hole in the roof.
“After gaining entry into the business, the accused cut a hole in the side of two safes and removed over $1,000,000 in jewelry,” the warrant states.
The next day, items taken from the store were found in a bin on Cherokee Street in Kennesaw, along with a paper bag from a Wendy’s fast food restaurant.
A plastic spoon from the Wendy’s bag was sent to the GBI Crime Lab for DNA testing.
On April 23, 2012, a burglary occurred at a jewelry store in Indiana in which the suspect also cut a hole in the roof to gain entry. A ski mask was found at that store, and was submitted for DNA testing.
According to the arrest warrant, that DNA test showed a match between the Indiana and Kennesaw burglaries, “but the suspect was unknown.”
Labrada-Guillen was arrested in March after a traffic stop in Miami, and DNA samples taken during that arrest were later found to match the DNA from the Kennesaw and Indiana jewelry thefts. He was allowed to post bond and was released in March.
Anyone with information about Labrada-Guillen is asked to call 911.
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