16 People Have Been Arrested in Relation to the Kim Kardashian Robbery
French detectives were able to determine their identities through traces of DNA.
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Following months of silence from French detectives, 16 suspects have been arrested in relation to the Kim Kardashian robbery, wherein the reality star was robbed at gunpoint for around $9 million worth of jewelry.
Police initially claimed that Kardashian had been assaulted by five masked intruders; however, the arrests signal that either more were at the scene of the crime or more were involved in orchestrating the heist.
The Telegraph reports that the suspects are a “mixed group” of men mostly in their fifties, with one as old as 72. Detectives were able to determine their identities through DNA traces left at the HĂ´tel de Pourtalès, where the attack took place on Oct. 3.
“One of the prints matched an individual known to police for hold-ups and common law cases–a high-level gangster,” a police source told The Telegraph. One suspect even attempted to sell one of the stolen pieces of jewelry to a re-seller.
For her part, Kim Kardashian will break her silence on the horrifying attack in a forthcoming (and teary) episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians.
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