Jewelry courier stabbed, robbed in Bellevue parking lot | The Seattle ... - Seattle Times
A jewelry courier was stabbed and robbed Thursday afternoon in the parking lot of a Bellevue shopping center, police said.
The courier suffered a non-life-threatening stab wound in the attack just after 2 p.m. in the Kelsey Creek Center, 15015 Main St.
Police said the courier was delivering an undisclosed amount of jewelry when a man approached him while he was seated in the car. The man broke the drivers-side window and pulled the courier from the car, police said.
The man stabbed the courier at least once and took the jewelry. He then left in another vehicle.
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“Police believe this was a targeted attack, and do not believe that there is any ongoing threat to the community,” police wrote in a news release.
Jewelry heists that target couriers aren’t unheard of in the Seattle area.
A year ago, a brazen group of robbers boxed in a diamond courier’s car on an Interstate 5 onramp in SeaTac, held the driver at gunpoint and stole $400,000 worth of gems.
In April 2013, four men robbed a traveling jewelry courier as he was getting out of his car at Northgate Mall. The masked men, armed with ice picks, pulled up in a van and jumped out, pushed the courier backward and punctured the rear tires on his car.
One month earlier, $500,000 in jewels was stolen from a courier’s vehicle as he was eating lunch at a deli on Mercer Island. The New York-based courier was in the area showing diamond wedding rings to stores and wholesalers, Mercer Island police said.
