When a single thief made off with $136 million in jewelry last month in Cannes, France, it may have been the biggest jewelry heist ever.
Meanwhile art thieves are making more money than ever.
All in all, it's been a good year for stealing stuff.
We've rounded up the biggest and boldest thefts of the past 12 months. Thankfully, many of these crimes have been solved or brought to trial.
A $2.6 million diamond necklace vanished from a star-studded party during the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
Despite 80 bodyguards, the diamond necklace went missing at the end of the night, The Daily Telegraph reported. At least 20 different models wore the $2.6 million piece, which belonged to a collection from Swiss jeweler De Grisogono.
The theft follows the disappearance of another million-dollar diamond necklace by designer Chopard during the same festival. French police are still investigating both occurrences, although they admit the festival is a favorite for jewel heists.
Postal workers and some of their family members were arrested for allegedly stealing $2.7 million from the Macedonian postal service.
The money had been taken in a series of six thefts at a Macedonian postal service branch in a suburb of Skopje.
The most recent one earlier this month led to the arrest of eight people including the head of postal security, two mailmen, and directors of the Postal Office, the Macedonia International News Agency (MINA) reported. The thieves made out with a combined almost €2 million, which they reportedly used to pay terrorists' "pensions" for fighting against Macedonian police.
An employee at a wine storage company allegedly swiped $2.7 million in vintage blends from his clients' lockers.
The employee in question was George Osumi, from Newport Beach, Calif. He had been working at Irvine's Legend Cellars when he was accused of replacing more than 1,000 bottles of first-growth Bordeaux from clients' private lockers with Trader Joe's Two Buck Chuck, The Huffington Post reported.
Osumi allegedly swapped out the fine wine for a $2 Trader Joe's blend some time between January 2008 and June 2012, prosecutors alleged, and had a friend auction off the expensive ones. Osumi would then split the proceeds with his friend who, had no idea the wine was stolen, the Orange County District Attorney said. Osumi could face 16 years in prison.
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