Jewelry heists happen surprisingly often. What's less common is that the perpetrators get caught. Here's a timeline of some recent capers.

Not the most subtle of heists, this. Three machine-gun-wielding bandits burst into a jewelry shop in the Carlton Hotel, an exclusive Art Deco hotel in Cannes, on the French Riviera. As an attention-getter, they sprayed the walls and ceiling with deafening bursts of machine-gun fire. While terrified employees and customers dived for cover, the trio scooped up an estimated $45 million worth of jewelry and fled. When the police arrived, they noticed a curious fact: There were no bullet holes in the walls. The thieves had been firing blanks. But whatever the robbers lacked in subtlety, they made up