BUSTED: Last Member of $5M Colombian Jewelry Heist Crew Pleads Guilty in Miami

The last piece of the puzzle just fell into place, fam. Leroy Ortega, aka “El Enano,” 43, from Miami, copped a plea yesterday for his part in a massive jewelry heist ring that raked in over $5 million. He's the final member of an 11-strong crew indicted as part of Operation Boujee Bandits. According to court docs, this transnational Colombian crew had it down to a science: they’d tail jewelry salespeople from the International Jewelry Exchanges or Seybold Building, rent cars with fake IDs, and hit 'em hard 🙅. Ortega admitted to two robberies: one where he and his boys took a photographer’s gear thinking it was jewels, and another where they nabbed $125,000 worth of the real deal from a salesman in Miami Beach. U.S. Attorney Jason A. Reding Quiñones had this to say: “These defendants operated as part of a coordinated South American theft group that targeted hardworking jewelry couriers and sales professionals transporting high-value diamonds, watches, and other merchandise. They followed their victims from jewelry exchanges, used fraudulent identification to rent vehicles, and relied on force and violence to steal valuable inventory.”