Jewelry Found In Car In Utah Was Stolen From Sonny's Rocks

DENVER (CBS4)- Police in Denver said some of the jewelry found in a car in Utah was stolen in a daring robbery by people wearing clown makeup.

Police in Salina, Utah, pulled over a car being driven by Vincent Scott Mathews, Jr., at about 8:30 a.m. on Sept. 1 for a traffic violation. Mathews Jr., 21, of Aurora, was driving on Interstate 70 with a passenger named Ronnette Sheri Hatch, 22, also of Aurora.

Police searched the car and found a loaded gun under the driver's seat. Officers said they also located more than 100 diamond rings in the back of the vehicle, worth about $500,000.

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Two people wearing heavy makeup and wigs robbed Sonny's Rocks on Colorado Boulevard on Aug. 24. They held up the store owner and employees and forced them at gunpoint to collect jewelry from the cases.

Mathews and Hatch remain in custody. Police haven't charged them in connection with the Sonny's Rocks robbery.

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