Illegal Immigrant Pleads Guilty to Participating in Beverly Hills Watch Robbery

The defendant faces 20 years in federal prison for the $1 million watch heist.
Illegal Immigrant Pleads Guilty to Participating in Beverly Hills Watch Robbery
An outdoor seating area across the street from the Beverly Wilshire hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., on March 18, 2020. Mario Tama/Getty Images
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An illegal immigrant from Colombia pleaded guilty on March 17 to a federal charge for helping a robbery crew that held a gun to a man’s head before stealing his million-dollar watch while he ate dinner with his wife and twin 5-year-old daughters on the patio of a hotel restaurant in Beverly Hills, California, last year.

Jamer Mauricio Sepulveda Salazar, 22, of Colombia, pleaded guilty Monday to one count of interference with commerce by robbery, a federal Hobbs Act violation because the crime occurred next to a major roadway.
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