Cobb County on Monday announced an indictment of a Florida man for racketeering for his alleged involvement in a multi-million dollar diamond heist in Kennesaw.
Osniel Labrada-Guillen burglarized Diamonds R Forever on Wade Green Road in Kennesaw in January 2010, Cobb District Attorney Vic Reynolds said. Labrada-Guillen cut holes in the roof, disabled the phone and alarm systems, then cut a hole in a safe and got away with jewelry, Reynolds said.
The stolen jewelry was worth more than $1 million, according to the arrest warrant.
Investigators discovered DNA on a plastic spoon in a Wendy’s restaurant bag when they recovered it along with property taken during the burglary in a plastic bin that had been dumped, according to the arrest warrant.
That DNA was matched with DNA found on a ski mask left at the scene of a 2012 jewelry store in Greenwood, Ind., but no suspect was identified until last September when the GBI crime lab was notified that the DNA recovered in Kennesaw matched Labrada-Guillen, 30, of Miami Gardens, Fla., Reynolds said.
The indictment charges him with two counts of Violation of the Georgia Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, which charges a “pattern of certain criminal acts,” Reynolds said.
The indictment returned Thursday against Labrada-Guillen details four other burglaries, in Florida, Texas and Indiana, to show a pattern of criminal acts.
Each count of racketeering carries a penalty of five to 20 years in prison upon conviction. Labrada-Guillen was brought to the Cobb County Jail on Dec. 28. He remains held without bond.
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