L.A. Crime: Hotel Guests Robbed of $100,000 in Jewelry While Waiting for Uber

Police are searching for the armed robbers who stole $100,000 of jewelry at gunpoint Tuesday from guests at the Intercontinental Hotel on Wilshire in downtown L.A. who were waiting in the valet lobby for an Uber ride.

NBC Los Angeles reported:

The robbery occurred around 1 a.m., while the two hotel guests were waiting in the hotel’s valet area for an Uber.

The two thieves emerged from a dark sedan and took around $100,000 worth of jewelry and other items while threatening the victims at gunpoint, then took off.

The robbery is the latest in a series of what the Los Angeles Times has called a spate of “brutal, brazen crimes” across the city.

Outgoing Mayor Eric Garcetti cut $150 million from the Los Angeles Police Department budget last year, in deference to the Black Lives Matter movement, and did not restore the funding when federal relief funds flooded the city’s coffers with cash earlier this year.- READ MORE