They would go into an adjacent store. Maybe it's a beauty shop. Maybe it's a home, the core shop. Those are less alarmed, less likely to have sophisticated alarms. The jewelry store is going to have a higher level of security. So they'd break into the back door of this adjacent store. And because of the construction layout typically in the strip malls, the bathrooms are back to back. So they just cut a big triangle over the toilet tank, and they could cut right through

and step right into the jewelry store.

Now the alarm would go off, at least the warning would start going off, like this motion detective. You had like 20 seconds to turn your alarm off. It'd be a beep, beep, beep. Mark scales would make his way to the panel, and he'd push the code, and then that would go away. Welcome to episode 397 of FBI case file review with Jerry Williams.

I'm a retired agent on a mission to show you who the FBI is and what the FBI does

through my books, my blog, and my podcast case reviews with

former colleagues. Today, we get to speak to retired agent James Page, who served in the FBI for

21 years. In this episode, he reviews his investigation of John Mark Collins, a former Florida sheriff

detective and accomplices in a jewelry store burglary ring, which took place in North Carolina,

South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. The burglars broke into jewelry stores and businesses and emptied the contents of

safes and display cases. The men were convicted of stealing $1.3 million in jewels and cash. Jim, who was also

the Charlotte Division's Weapons of Mass Destruction Coordinator for the

state of North Carolina, also talks about WMD threats and reviews his duties as a WMD coordinator.

Prior to joining the Bureau, Jim was an officer in the United States Marine Corps and a helicopter

pilot. During 18 years of his career, he worked white-collar crime and violent crime,

but specialized in terrorism and weapons of mass destruction cases out of the Raleigh Resident Agency

in the Charlotte Division.

He was a firearms instructor, defensive tactics instructor, and the Charlotte Division's primary

WMD coordinator. Jim spent over 10 years on the SWAT team, the last two years as the senior

team leader. Later promoted to supervisory special agent,

Jim was assigned to the terrorist screening operation unit handling all watchlisted encounters

whether traffic stops, border crossings, our flight manifest. He served as the first FBI advisor to the commanding officer of Special Operations

Command North at Peterson Air Force Base and Colorado Springs, Colorado. After retiring from the FBI,

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