Lure of diamonds ends in jail and deportation

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<a href=winnipeg.cbc.ca>winnipeg.cbc.ca Web Posted | May 30 2003 12:51 PM CDT

WINNIPEG - Most of the people who stole diamonds from a Thunder Bay jewellery store this year have been sentenced to time already served in jail.

That amounts to a sentence of about six weeks.

The group is made up of mostly men, from Mexico, Columbia and Venezuela.

They were arrested in Winnipeg in mid-April with $29,000 in diamonds stolen days earlier from Atkinson's Jewellers.

All of the accused, with the exception of one Canadian woman, now face deportation back to their native countries.

A ninth person remains in custody awaiting a further court hearing.