Four people charged in home invasion robbery, accused of stealing about $1 million in jewelry
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Bowling Green police arrested two Tennessee men Friday and charged a Bowling Green couple Monday accused in a July 13 home invasion robbery on Smallhouse Road.
Just after 10:30 a.m. July 13, three men pretending to be delivery drivers knocked on the door of a Bowling Green residence/home office. An employee who was working in the office answered the door and was met by a man who produced a gun.
The employee was knocked to the ground, tied up and sustained a broken bone.
Javier Nunez, 41, and Nicolas Cruz Palacios, 41, both of Old Hickory, Tenn., are charged with first-degree robbery, kidnapping and second-degree assault in the incident. The men are accused of taking a safe containing about $1 million in antique jewelry from the home, according to Nunez’ arrest citation.
Monday, Jeffery, 69, and Patricia Weisman, of Bowling Green, were also charged. They are charged with complicity to first-degree robbery, complicity to kidnapping and complicity to second-degree assault and theft by unlawful taking $10,000 or more but under $1 million, according to a release from Bowling Green Police Department.
Both Nunez and Cruz Palacios made self incriminating statements to police, according to Nunez’ arrest warrant. Both men named a third person involved but gave different names for that third person.
One of the men involved spray painted an exterior surveillance camera while another wore a portable WiFi jammer during the robbery, according to the arrest warrant. That device caused technical glitches in some security cameras.
Nunez was on a phone inside the residence getting directions to the safe, according to his arrest warrant.
Nunez said he and others were involved in the robbery and that he had been approached by man, named Jeff, who said he owned the safe. Cruz Palacious, who lives with Nunez, said Nunez asked him to drive his van to Bowling Green. Cruz Palacious admitted to police he was involved in the robbery with a man he knows as Kevin.
All three men are lodged in the Warren County Regional Jail. The woman is being treated for a medical condition, Bowling Green police said in a release.
