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Nashville diamond thieves met their match

He was well dressed, sophisticated, friendly. Just the kind of customer to browse diamonds costing tens of thousands of dollars.

But Victor Lupis, 25, was no shopper.

Behind the warm green eyes, infectious charm and delicate frame was a grab man for an interstate diamond heist ring that spent a year nabbing nearly $2 million in jewels and platinum. Lupis and his crew knocked over jewelers in California, Oregon, Nevada and Florida, with cunning, charisma and speed.

A February pit stop on their cross-country spree included Genesis Diamonds in Nashville, where Lupis filched $270,000 worth of jewelry.

They were the bane of jewelers across the country, who had already seen more grab-and-run schemes in recent years. But few, they agreed, had the sophistication of this crew.

An arrest and confession eventually shed light on how they did it, and led to a roundup of the alleged players, some of whom deny a role in the crimes. This is how officials think the crew, and the heists, came together.

Source: The Tennessean