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Posted on 05.08.08 by Mary Lou Seymour
“After Leon Rozio got robbed, he vowed never to let it happen again. Three or four years ago, the 64-year-old owner of Miami-based H&L Wholesale Jewelry Inc. lost some $300,000 in gold and jewelry in a holdup, said his half-brother, Fernando Mirabal. Soon after, Rozio started bringing a gun on his sales runs, which took him and his priceless jewelry to shops across South Florida. About 12:45 p.m. Wednesday, not long after Rozio parked his red Ford Explorer outside St. Moritz Jewelers on Boca Raton’s west side, four men screamed up behind him in a silver car, boxing him in. They surrounded the Explorer, smashing out all four windows to get at the jewelry inside, witnesses said.’ ‘He opened up like I have never seen,’ said Greg Sanderson, manager of a nearby Omaha Steaks shop, who watched the shooting through the store’s plate-glass windows. ‘I couldn’t believe it. It sounded like the Wild West out there.”’ (05/08/08) Link: http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/525249.html Filed under: 2AM News and RRND News | Report Bad Link Bookmark this post in Furl or Del.icio.us | |






