Federal agents and police are searching for an armed and dangerous fugitive suspected in smash-and-grab jewelry store heists in Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Virginia towns including New Canaan.
Courtney Hardin, 25, of Brooklyn, New York, is suspected of being part of a robbery team that stole three Rolex watches valued at $55,000 from Henry C. Reid & Son Jewelers at 72 Elm Street in New Canaan on Nov. 6. He also goes by the names Mazie and Mozie.
After a store employee locked the door to thwart a group of men from getting in close to 4 p.m. that day, one of them smashed the front display window with a tool that looked like a sledge hammer to steal the watches. The group likely fled the scene in a gold Chevrolet Malibu with tinted windows and New York license plates.
Police, who found blood and skin tissue at the scene, recently identified Hardin Ryan "Shaky" Campbell, 36, of New Jersey, as suspects, in addition to Ryan Roberto "Berto" Grant, 33, also known as Roberto Cross, 28, Ralik Hansen, also known as Ralik Taylor, Rahlik, Rah and Ratchet, Ronald "Rondu" McIntyre, 36, Sean Robinson, 42, also known as Sean Vicks, Luca and Luca Brasi, and Allen Williams, 35.
Grant, McIntyre, Robinson and Williams were arrested and are in federal custody awaiting trial.
Hansen took his own life when a delivery service representative knocked on his door in Brooklyn, New York and he shot himself thinking it was police coming to take him into custody, New Canaan police said.
The FBI and NYPD are also searching for Hardin, along with Jamal Dehoyos, who they believe are suspects in a team of robbers who stole more than $700,000 in watches from Cartier in midtown Manhattan in January of this year. Hansen, who had ties to Georgia and Panama, was also wanted in connection to the robbery.
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"The robbery crew conducted similar smash-and-grab jewelry store robberies in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Virginia," the FBI said in a wanted poster for the two men.
Police described Hardin as a black male who is 6-foot-2 and 200 pounds and said he frequents Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights neighborhoods in the Brooklyn part of New York City.
Dehoyos, described as a black male in his late 30s who is 6-foot-1" and about 200 pounds, was not named in connection to the New Canaan heist.
The FBI is offering a reward for anyone who gives investigators a tip that results in an arrest of either Hardin or Dehoyos. The bureau asks anyone with information to call the FBI at 212-384-1000 and said that tips can be made anonymously.
As for the New Canaan smash-and-grab robbery, the Connecticut State Forensic Laboratory and FBI assisted New Canaan's investigative and patrol divisions in the ongoing investigation.
