A person who robbed a NYC Diamond District retailer of $4million value of jewellery in 2019 ought to serve 14 years in jail, prosecutors argued on Monday.
New surveillance footage of the fedora-wearing thief finishing up the heist in midtown Manhattan was additionally launched as a part of a brand new sentencing submission filed by federal prosecutors.
Stills of the video present Jaysean Sutton, 43, sporting a fedora and blue go well with as he brandished a pistol within the again room of the Avianne and Co. jewellery retailer.
He and two others then certain staff with zip ties and duct tape. The three thieves, which embrace Sutton, Pedro Davila, 30, and a last unnamed suspect, then made off with round $3.4million in jewellery, wrote US legal professional Alexander Li.
After fleeing the state Sutton was arrested in a North Carolina resort in October 2019, the submission stated.
Sutton, who had been sentenced to 5 medicine and firearms prices earlier than the theft, plead responsible to the jewellery store heist in January of this yr.
Sutton plead responsible to the jewellery store heist in January – the thief may be seen right here pulling a gun out within the retailer
A picture launched as a part of a sentencing submission on Monday exhibits Sutton as he took one of many retailer’s staff to a room and compelled him to open a protected at gunpoint
Sutton has been convicted of a minimum of 5 firearms and medicines prices in New York and Connecticut. He was arrested just a few months after the heist in a North Carolina resort
The stolen gadgets had been stated by federal prosecutor Alexander Li to be value $3.4million, which he argued was indicative of ‘the audacity of the crime’
The West forty seventh avenue retailer is understood for catering to numerous celebrities together with Nicki Minaj and Migos.
At round 11.30am on August 25, 2019 – simply 10 days after being launched from state parole – Sutton entered the jewellery retailer with Davila and the unnamed confederate.
At round 11.42 Sutton met with a number of staff in a again room of the shop, Li says within the submission.
There whereas he sat talking with them within the room Sutton brandished a silver pistol earlier than instructing them to the bottom and binding 4 of the shop’s staff with duct tape and zip ties, wrote Li.
As soon as safe Sutton started looting the store and used his gun to power one of many staff into one other room to open a locked protected.
A part of the submission – a nonetheless from the surveillance footage – exhibits Sutton on the protected with the certain worker.
Over the course of quarter-hour the three thieves tossed varied items of jewellery into giant baggage as staff lay certain on the bottom, footage exhibits.
Sutton, Davila and the ultimate unnamed thief then ransacked the remainder of the shop, leaving at round 11.58am with an estimated $3.4million-worth of jewellery of their baggage.
A few months in a while October 7, 2019, Sutton was arrested at a resort in North Carolina.
In January this yr Sutton pleaded responsible to the theft in addition to the lesser offences of possessing the firearm.
Armed thieves pulled off the noon heist at Avianne & Co. jewellery retailer within the Diamond District of New York Metropolis
Jaysean Sutton, 43, and Pedro Davila (pictured), 30, are two of the three suspects within the 2019 theft of Avianne and Co. in Manhattan’s Diamond District
Avianne and Co. have a historical past of promoting jewellery to superstar clientele, together with rappers like Migos and Blueface (left)
Sutton has a lot of prior convictions and has served a number of stints in jail for prices referring to firearms and medicines.
In 2000 Sutton was charged with drug and weapons offenses in New York, for which he was sentenced to 6 months in jail.
And in 2002 he was discovered responsible of Connecticut assault and firearms offenses for which he was sentenced to a complete of three years in jail.
Then in 2003 he was sentenced to 5 years in jail for a Connecticut coercion offense.
In 2005 he was convicted of one other Connecticut firearms offense and sentenced to a yr in jail.
Lastly in 2007 he acquired his longest sentence of 5 years in jail for a New York firearms offense.
Now persecutor Alexander Li is in search of a 14 yr sentence for Sutton. He wrote within the submission to the federal decide:
‘Sutton robbed a jewellery retailer in Midtown Manhattan in broad daylight and with high-definition surveillance footage rolling. On digicam, Sutton brandished a gun whereas staff lay certain on the ground.
‘Although the $3.4 million he looted shouldn’t be an ideal measure of the seriousness of his crime, it’s a proxy for the audacity of the crime within the public consciousness.’