Police log: Ruby Hill burglary nets $70,000 in jewelry

$70,000 worth of jewlery and you don’t have an alarm system or a safe??

SJ….They TOOK the Safe!…..it was the last item listed….

The ‘thieves’ probly haven’t even been able to get the safe open yet, but now, at least they know the contents…

I’ve always wanted to plan a robbery in RH. But a big one, like in the movies. We’d back up a realistic moving van to the garage and such. First we have to find out who has the most valuable jewelry, rare furniture, coins, etc. Art is too hard to sell. Does anyone know which residence would be a best candidate? Would have to be $300K plus in value.

If anyone tries this at my place while I at home, I’ll give these people an “Applied 2nd Amendment Appreciation Lesson.”

Seems like I’ve read several crime reports here on the Pleasanton Weekly where robbers broke into a house and made off with loads of jewelry. When I look up the locations on the map, I find that the jewelry robberies are generally in fairly expensive neighborhoods (>$1M houses?), so maybe the thieves are targeting those houses. They certainly aren’t going to find $70,000 worth of jewelry in my house. Maybe just something like $16.05 if they make off with my very young daughter’s entire Disney Princess jewelry collection. I doubt that my neighbors have anything like $70,000 in jewelry laying around the house either.

So for any robbers out there: Don’t waste your time with the Oak Hill neighborhood. Try your luck in somewhere like Ruby Hill instead.

To Ruby Hill homeowners: Lock up your tens of thousands of $$$ of jewelry in a vault or a bank safebox, you fools! Every successful robbery like this just encourages another.

They needed a safe that was bolted to the ground, not a small $200 safe that obviously can be carried out. This definitely sounds like someone knew that they had valuable jewelry and it was a planned

Response to Stupid – DESERVED to be robed? Wow. I think you self described yourself with your name.

Speaking for myself, I’d rather be murdered than have someone take any of my personal possessions. My possessions are my life. My possessions are my liberty. My possessions are my happiness. Take my life, take my wife, please. But don’t take my possessions. Burglary is the worst crime in the world. That’s why I’m opposed to union teachers.

“Has anyone considered that this “theft” might have been faked? After all, so many of the seemingly rich in Ruby Hill are really in default on their mortgages. Heads-up up insurance company, this one stinks like three day old fish.”

Yeah, that crossed my mind, too. It does seem remarkable that there have been similar cases of robbers successfully making off with tens of thousands of dollars worth of jewelry at other houses in Pleasanton. Don’t people keep such possessions securely locked up or at least well hidden? Don’t people that wealthy have elaborate security systems that would alert the police or security company long before the robbers are able to find and get away with all that jewelry? Seems like these wealthy households are extremely careless about about their valuable possessions. Kind of suspicious.

I’m happy my good neighbors have figured out that the neighbors on my street who got robbed are either fools or criminals. You have no idea how upset we all are on our street. Losing 70,000 in jewels is like losing a child, or worse. The replacement value may be as high as 150,000. Can you not show a little bit of sympathy for what has happened to a valued property owner? There is no worse crime on this earth than stealing property from someone. Rape? Assault? Murder? Even with murder, the victim isn’t around to feel so deprived after losing one’s wealth to an entitlement group member. But to be burgled and forced to live with it? My good neighbors will no doubt be scarred for life. Who wants to lose that kind of money?

I can understand the skepticism and cynicism. Knowing only the facts that have been presented in the article, here are my thoughts. I think the manned security entrance and being “inside the gates” gives some residents a false sense of security. That may be why they didn’t bother with turning on the alarm. Also, my first thought was that this house was targeted – perhaps someone knew that the homeowners would be gone for that many days. Maybe the thieves didn’t know in advance the magnitude of the valuables inside the house, and just ended up getting very lucky. Anyways, if this happened as reported, I feel really sad for the homeowners. Items can be replaced, but a violated peace of mind and sense of home cannot be so easily repaired.

I personally tend to leave a lot of jewels laying around the house because it impresses the kind of people I bring to the house. They don’t know the difference between a Ph.D. certificate up on the wall from Stanford vs. one from U of Alabama. But they do know the difference between a cubic zirconium and a Rolex. I’m always trying to impress them.

70,000 sounds about right. That’s only a tiny fraction of my jewels, but it’s what I use as maid- and yardworker- bait. I leave the jewels laying around to see if any of my workers fall to the temptation. When I catch them, I fire them and have them arrested. Doesn’t everyone do this? I don’t see how someone can run a household without the neighbor-impressing and nanny-trapping jewels being strewn about in an open manner.

My teens already have told me about the details of this robbery. What a joke.

Yes apparently it was a fake. The wife is planning on leaving the husband and is slowly collecting her money on the side before serving him papers. Unfortunately she hired amateurs to do the job, thus the word is out even to the male teen community. Now it is clear how this was done even with security and neighbors around.

Best of luck to her though.

Yep, I’m with Paul R. Some wayward teen decides to sneak into my house to steal my earings, I’m going to blow him away. He doesn’t deserve to live. What’s more important? His life or my earrings? The Founding Mothers and Fathers in the Declaration of Amendments gave us the right to defend our earrings against the wicked fourteen year-olds in our neighborhood.

Why can’t that fourteen year old learn how to work, or marry into inherited money like I did?

Well, I guess we’ve exhausted intelligent comments on this topic.

I find it disturbing that so many people seem to be ok with another person being violated instead of being outraged that a crime was committed. The circumstances of a robbery are not for us to be speculating on. As for “Leland”, I don’t believe for a minute you live in Ruby HIll… your inflammatory statements are illogical and ridiculous.

I wish this rag would great publicizing high value robberies – whether it’s $1000 in Valley Trails, or $75,000 in Ruby Hills – it’s basically an advertisement for criminals that there’s some rich folk in P*town with a lot o’ bling-bling to steal. With the new BART station at Stoneridge Mall and these announcements; you would think this city is staging a marketing campaign to attract thieves from the East Bay. How about we start publishing which businesses use alarm systems and which don’t and pass a city wide ammendment against firearm ownership while we’re at it?

“I wish this rag would great publicizing high value robberies – whether it’s $1000 in Valley Trails, or $75,000 in Ruby Hills – it’s basically an advertisement for criminals that there’s some rich folk in P*town with a lot o’ bling-bling to steal.”

Promoting crime, even though crime is down, is the MO for all bay area police contract negotiations.

I think Leland just morphed into “Bob” – or is the Blossom?