BROOKLYN — The last suspect wanted in connection to a $700,000 smash-and-grab Cartier heist was arrested in Brooklyn on Wednesday, officials said.
U.S. Marshals arrested Courtney Hardin, 26, at the Bedford-Stuyvesant home of his former girlfriend near Fulton Street and Marcus Garvey Boulevard, according to officials.
Authorities spotted Hardin hiding under his child's bed and he was taken into custody without incident, they said.
Hardin, of Bed-Stuy, was being sought by the FBI on a federal warrant for his alleged participation in the Jan. 30, 2014 robbery, in which a group of thieves entered a Fifth Avenue Cartier store in broad daylight with masks and hammers, smashing display cases and taking off with 16 watches worth more than $700,000, according to the U.S. Marshals Service and FBI.
Hardin is the sixth person to be arrested in connection to the heist, which involved five thieves, according to authorities. A U.S. Marshals spokesman could not specify what role Hardin played in the robbery.
He was also wanted for at least four other robberies in Manhattan, New Jersey and Connecticut as part of a “violent interstate robbery crew,” the FBI said.
Police nabbed one of the five other suspects, Jamal Dehoyos, on Feb. 24 as he walking to a train platform in Brooklyn, the spokesman said.
Another man linked to the robbery, 28-year-old Ralik Hansen, accidentally shot and killed himself in October 2015, officials said.
Hansen was attempting to hide from a FedEx carrier who he thought was a police officer coming to arrest him, according to the U.S. Marshals Service.
Attorney information for Hardin and Dehoyos was not immediately available.
